Woodford Wells

Woodford Wells
Woodford Wells  Woodford Wells shown within Greater London
London borough	Redbridge
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WOODFORD GREEN
Postcode district	IG8
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
London Assembly	Havering and Redbridge
List of places UK England London

Coordinates: 51°36′56″N 0°01′44″E / 51.615645°N 0.028861°E

Woodford Wells is an old hamlet now part of the northern suburbs of London, England, in the district of Woodford, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Woodford Green and on the edge of Epping Forest. The name is first shown on a map in 1805,^[1] and refers to mineral water wells. In the 18th century briefly the hamlet was a small spa but by the 1870s the wells had been long neglected and Woodford Wells had become a "straggle of hamlets".^[2][3] Among its notable features is the Horse & Well, a 17th-century coaching inn still in operation. Woodford Wells is home to Woodford Wells F.C.. St Aubyn's School was founded here in 1884, later moved elsewhere.

References

1. Mills, A.D. (2001). Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford.
2. James Thorne (1876). Handbook to the environs of London: alphabetically arranged, containing an account of every town and village, and of all places of interest, within a circle of twenty miles round London 2. London: J. Murray. pp. 736–738.
3. Bridget Cherry, Charles O'Brien, Nikolaus Pevsner, ed. (2005). London, Volume 5. Pevsner Architectural Guides. Yale University Press. pp. 63, 371–372. ISBN 0-300-10701-3.