The name comes from a bridge over the River Roding which was demolished in 1921. The bridge was made of red brick, unlike other bridges in the area, which were made of white stone. The name was later applied to the wider London borough created in 1965. The bridge was earlier known as Hocklee's Bridge.

Red-brick terraced houses, now mostly pebble-dashed, were built here at the beginning of the 20th century using materials from the Ilford brickfields. Another spate of housebuilding followed the arrival of the Eastern Avenue in the mid-1920s, when the iron bridge was replaced by the present crossing.

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The area is mostly residential with a selection of retail outlets, a wide variety of restaurants, pub-restaurants, bars and a hotel.
The name likely originated from the le Gant family, who were stewards of Barking Abbey. The name Gantesgrave appears in records as early as 1291.

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A 52-hectare (130-acre) park, south of Gants Hill, it is the largest green space in the London Borough of Redbridge. The park was originally the grounds of Valentines Mansion, a residence built in 1696.^[3] Valentines Park holds a Green Flag Award and was voted one of the ten best parks in Britain in 2019.^[4]

The park, including Valentines Mansion, is managed on behalf of Redbridge Council by Vision RCL, a registered charity.

Cranbrook Road. The club featured in the ITV2 reality series The Only Way Is Essex and opens Thursday to Saturday. The club has six bars, two music rooms and VIP tables.^[4]

The main road is the Eastern Avenue (A12), which until the 1920s was a country lane called Hatch Lane. The main landmark in this area is the tube station whose post-war bus shelter received a Festival of Britainaward in 1951. The shelter was designed by architect Oliver Hill in 1937.

The name Newbury was first recorded in 1348. The area, along with the rest of Ilford, was part of the county of Essex until 1965, when the new borough became a part of Greater London.

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Historically in Essex, it was part of the Municipal Borough of Ilford until 1965, when the Borough, including Fairlop, became part of Greater London. 

As well as its residential areas, the district includes farmland, woodland and recreational facilities such as Fairlop Waters and Redbridge Sports Centre. The area is located 11 miles north-east of Charing Cross.

The area takes its name from the Fairlop Oak, a large tree, which once stood in the area, which was then part of Hainault Forest. The area was historically famous for the Fairlop Fair, a long-standing East End institution.

Chigwell Row is a small village falling within the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located 12.9 miles (20.8 km) north east of Charing Cross.

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12.5 miles (20.1 km) northeast of Charing Cross. Most of the housing in Hainault was built by the London County Council between 1947 and 1953. Originally spanning the parishes of Chigwell, Dagenham, and Ilford, in 1965 the estate was combined in a single London borough and became part of Greater London.

The name Hainault was recorded as 'Henehout' in 1221 and 'Hyneholt' in 1239. It is Old English and means 'wood belonging to a religious community', referring to the ownership of Hainault Forest by Barking Abbey. The spelling was altered from the 17th century to its modern form owing to an imagined but false connection to Philippa of Hainault, the wife of Edward III.

The area was mainly forested. It was owned by the nuns of Barking Abbey and formed part of the Forest of Essex. The area's timber was predominantly used for building ships and houses.
A decline in demand for timber, and a greater demand for food, led in 1851 to an Act of Parliament authorising the deforestation of much of Hainault Forest. Within six weeks 3,000 acres of woodland was cleared.

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Chigwell is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It is part of the urban and metropolitan area of London, and is adjacent to the northern boundary of Greater London. It is on the Central line of the London Underground. In 2011 the parish had a population of 12,987.

According to P. H. Reaney's Place-Names of Essex the name means 'Cicca's well', Cicca being an Anglo-Saxon personal name. In medieval sources the name appears with a variety of spellings including "Cinghe uuella"^[3]and Chikewelle".^[4] Folk etymology has sought to derive the name from a lost "king's well", supposed to have been to the south-east of the parish near the border of what is now the London Borough of Redbridge.^{[citation needed]} There were several medicinal springs in Chigwell Row documented by Miller Christy in his book History of the mineral waters and medicinal springs of the county of Essex, published in 1910. The 18th-century historian Nathaniel Salmon stated that the "-well" element in the name derives from Anglo-Saxon weald (wood).

William Penn was a pupil at the School. He went on to become a prominent Quaker, advocate of religious freedom, and founder of the US state of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia.

Young William Penn was by now reading widely, and there were many radical political and religious ideas in the air. During this time he heard Quaker missionary Thomas Loe speak, which clearly impressed him. Then, aged 16, he went to Christ Church, Oxford. The Church of England was the only legal form of worship at this time and students were expected to attend services.  Penn found this impossible to accept, and began to organise meetings and to challenge the authorities. By 1662 they could take no more, and expelled him.

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On 5 September 1666, Samuel Pepys climbed the tower of this old church its tower and watched his city burn.  The church of All Hallows by the Tower is the oldest church in the City of London, founded in 675AD.  An arch from this original church remains and, beneath that, a fragment of Roman pavement. The church has looked after the bodies of those beheaded on nearby Tower Hill, including Thomas More’s.  The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, was baptised here and notable weddings included those of John Quincy Adams, 6^th President of the USA, and Judge Jeffries, famous for his ‘bloody assizes’ in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor of 1685. All Hallows survived the Great Fire, thanks to the efforts of Pepys’ friend Admiral Penn, but was fairly comprehensively bombed during WW2 and rebuilt in the 1950s.

All Hallows by the Tower is the oldest church in the City of London and was founded by the Abbey of Barking (see chapter ) in 675AD, 300 years before the Tower of London.

St Olave’s, Hart Street is on the corner of Hart Street and Seething Lane.  It is one of the smallest churches in the City of London and one of a handful to survive the Great Fire – thanks again to the efforts of Sir William Penn (father of the founder of Pennsylvania). It was Samuel Pepys’ favourite church – he is buried, with his wife, under the nave and his bust is in the churchyard. Some say St Olave’s is built on or near the site of the legendary Battle of London Bridge in 1014, in which Olaf II of Norway fought alongside Ethelred the Unready against the Danes. Anyway, the church is dedicated to St Olaf, the patron saint of Norway.

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Bus 150 from BECONTREE (near VALENCE HOUSE MUSEUM) and ILFORD

Chigwell Row has long been an outlying hamlet of Chigwell in an even loftier location, on a ridge to the southeast that rises to 86 m. Originally surrounded by thick forest, it began to grow from the end of the 18th century, first when medicinal springs were found in the area, and then when a new road suitable for coaches was opened to Romford, today’s A1112. The first of its landmarks encountered on the Loop is Chigwell Row waterworks, built in 1967 and now operated by Essex & Suffolk Water.

Buckhurst Hill is an affluent suburban town in Epping Forest, Essex, within the Greater London Urban Area and adjacent to the northern boundary of the London Borough of Redbridge. The area developed following the opening of a railway line in 1856, originally part of the Eastern Counties Railway and now on the Central line of the London Underground.

The first known mention of Buckhurst Hill dates back to 1135, referenced as "La Bocherste", which later evolved into "Bucket Hill", originally meaning a hill covered with beech trees. At that time, it lay within the bounds of Epping Forest consisting of only a few scattered houses along the ancient route connecting Woodford to Loughton.
Before the building of the railways, Buckhurst Hill was on the stagecoach route between London and Cambridge, Norwich, Bury St Edmunds and Great Dunmow. Originally, Buckhurst Hill was a part of the parish of Chigwell, but with no road linking the two communities and in order to get to church, parishioners had to ford the River Roding at Woodford.

Holmehurst was built between 1864-65 in the Victorian Gothic revival style.

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It was later a safe house for anti-Nazi VIPs.