Gidea Park

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Gidea Park
Raphael public park in Gidea Park
Gidea Park Gidea Park shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ525905
– Charing Cross	15.2 mi (24.5 km) ENE
London borough	Havering
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ROMFORD
Postcode district	RM2
Dialling code	01708
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Romford
London Assembly	Havering and Redbridge
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Coordinates: 51°35′33″N 0°12′09″E / 51.5926°N 0.2025°E / 51.5926; 0.2025

Gidea Park (/ˈɡɪdⁱə.pɑːrk/) is a neighbourhood near Romford in the London Borough of Havering, east London. Predominantly affluent and residential, it was originally known as Romford Garden Suburb.

Locale

Gidea Park is south-west of the Gallows Corner junction where the A12, A127 and A118 roads meet. It is approximately 15 miles (24 km) north-east of Charing Cross.

Romford is a large town to the south-west of Gidea Park; Ardleigh Green is to the east, and Emerson Park and Hornchurch are to the south.

History

Romford Garden Suburb was constructed in 1910–11 on the Gidea Hall and Balgores estates as an exhibition of town planning. Small cottages and houses were designed by more than 100 architects, many of them of considerable reputation. A competition was held to select the best town planning scheme for the suburb; the best designs for houses resulted in those being sold at a well-above average £500 and cottages at £375. The project, including a new railway station on the Great Eastern Main Line out of London, was promoted by a company founded by three Liberal Members of Parliament who had links with the Hampstead Garden Suburb development: Herbert Raphael, John Tudor Walters (both later knighted) and Charles McCurdy.^[1]

St. Michael and All Angels church in Gidea Park, built in the early 1930s

Known as the exhibition houses, and set in their garden suburb, the houses are fine examples of the domestic architecture of their time. Six of them are now Grade II listed buildings (the initial category of architectural recognition). Further houses, mostly of contemporary flat-roofed design, were built in 1934–35 in Heath Drive, Brook Road, and Eastern Avenue for a Modern Homes Exhibition. One such house (No. 64, Heath Drive) by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton Group architectural group was the special responsibility of Francis Skinner and is now Grade II listed.^[2]

Society and leisure

The Royal Liberty School in Upper Brentwood Road was the first school in Britain (and possibly in Europe) to install an electronic computer (an Elliot 903), in 1965.

Romford Hockey Club is based in Gidea Park. It is also the location of Gidea Park Lawn Tennis Club, Romford Golf Club, and two public parks: Lodge Farm Park and Raphael Park. There are also a number of pubs, restaurants and a library.

Essex County Cricket Club played first-class cricket at the Gidea Park Sports Ground between 1950 and 1968.

Education

Main article: List of schools in the London Borough of Havering

Transport links

Gidea Park railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line, with stopping services running between London Liverpool Street and Shenfield. On Sundays there are also semi-fast services to and from Southend Victoria.^[3] From 2019, Gidea Park will be fully served by Crossrail, linking it to additional stations in central London as well as Heathrow Airport and Reading.^[4]

Romford railway station is close and is also on the Great Eastern Main Line and sees additional express and stopping services to and from Liverpool Street; it is also the terminus of a branch line to Upminster via Emerson Park.^[5]

A number of London Buses routes run through Gidea Park towards Romford, Lakeside Shopping Centre, Dagenham, Harold Hill, Harold Wood, Gallows Corner and Brentwood.^[6]

References

↑ W.R.Powell, ed. (1978). "Romford: Introduction". A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7. pp. 58–66. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
↑ "English Heritage listed building entry for 64 Heath Drive". English Heritage. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
↑ https://www.abelliogreateranglia.co.uk/travel-information/station-information/gdp
↑ https://tfl.gov.uk/hub/stop/910GGIDEAPK/gidea-park-rail-station/
↑ https://www.abelliogreateranglia.co.uk/travel-information/station-information/rmf
↑ https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/

External links

London Borough of Havering

Districts	Ardleigh Green Chase Cross Coldharbour Collier Row Cranham Elm Park Emerson Park Frog Island Gallows Corner Gidea Park Hacton Harold Hill Harold Park Harold Wood Havering-atte-Bower Heath Park Hornchurch Noak Hill North Ockendon Rainham Rise Park Romford Rush Green South Hornchurch Upminster Upminster Bridge Wennington

Attractions	CEME The Diver Havering Museum Langtons Queen's Theatre Rainham Hall Rainham War Memorial The Rom Tithe Barn Museum Upminster Windmill

Major retail	The Brewery The Liberty The Mercury Romford Market

Places of worship	St Andrew, Hornchurch St Edward the Confessor, Romford St John, South Hornchurch St Helen and St Giles, Rainham St Laurence, Upminster St Mary Magdalene, North Ockendon

Parks and open spaces	Bedfords Park Dagnam Park Harrow Lodge Park Havering Country Park Hornchurch Country Park Hylands Park Pyrgo Park Tylers Common Wildspace Conservation Park Upminster Park

Constituencies	Dagenham and Rainham (part) Hornchurch and Upminster Romford

Tube and rail stations	Elm Park Emerson Park Gidea Park Harold Wood Hornchurch Rainham Romford Upminster Upminster Bridge

Other topics	Council Grade I and II* listed buildings People Public art Public transport Schools

Areas of London

Central activities zone

Town centre network

International	Knightsbridge West End

Metropolitan	Bromley Croydon Ealing Harrow Hounslow Ilford Kingston Romford Shepherd's Bush Stratford Sutton Uxbridge Wood Green

Major	Angel Barking Bexleyheath Brixton Camden Town Canary Wharf Catford Chiswick Clapham Junction Dalston East Ham Edgware Eltham Enfield Town Fulham Hammersmith Holloway Nags Head Kensington High Street Kilburn King's Road East Lewisham Orpington Peckham Putney Queensway/Westbourne Grove Richmond Southall Streatham Tooting Walthamstow Wandsworth Wembley Whitechapel Wimbledon Woolwich

Districts (principal)	Acton Beckenham Bethnal Green Brentford Camberwell Canada Water Carshalton Chadwell Heath Chingford Clapham Crystal Palace Coulsdon Cricklewood Dagenham Deptford Dulwich Edmonton Elephant and Castle Erith Feltham Finchley Forest Gate Forest Hill Golders Green Greenwich Harlesden Hampstead Harringay Hendon Hornchurch Kentish Town Leyton Mill Hill Mitcham Morden Muswell Hill New Cross New Malden Northwood Notting Hill Penge Pinner Purley Ruislip Sidcup Southgate South Norwood Stoke Newington Surbiton Sydenham Teddington Thamesmead Tolworth Twickenham Tulse Hill Upminster Upper Norwood Wanstead Wealdstone Welling West Hampstead West Norwood Willesden Green Woodford

Neighbourhoods (principal)	Abbey Wood Alperton Anerley Barnes Barnsbury Battersea Beckton Bermondsey Bow Brent Cross Brockley Canonbury Charlton Chelsea Chessington Chipping Barnet Chislehurst Clerkenwell Elmers End Gidea Park Gunnersbury Hackbridge Hackney Harold Wood Highams Park Highbury Highgate Hillingdon Hook Holloway Hoxton Ickenham Isle of Dogs Isleworth Islington Kensal Green Kew Lambeth Manor Park Marylebone Mortlake Northolt Nunhead Poplar Roehampton Rotherhithe Seven Kings Seven Sisters Shoreditch Southwark Stepney St Helier Surrey Quays Tottenham Upper Clapton Walworth Wapping West Ham Worcester Park

Lists of all areas by borough

London Plan, Annex Two: London's Town Centre Network

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