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4 unusual facts about Ongar


Greensted

Greensted is a village in the Ongar civil parish of Essex, England, strung out along the Greensted Road approximately one mile to the west of Chipping Ongar.

Marden Ash

Marden Ash is an urban settlement in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest District in Essex, contiguous with the small town of Chipping Ongar.

Richard Woleman

On the following 30 June he was presented by the crown to the rectory of High Hunger (Ongar) in Essex.

Shelley, Essex

Shelley is a small urban settlement in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest District, in the English county of Essex.


Chipping Ongar

On the Who's album, Live at Leeds, Keith Moon refers to Chipping Ongar in a bit of stage banter as part of the introduction to their so-called "mini-opera," A Quick One, While He's Away.

Dial House, Essex

Oliver Rackham describes Ongar Great Park as possibly having been the "prototype deer park", mentioned in an "Anglo-Saxon will of 1045".

London Underground 1935 Stock

Following electrification of the Epping-Ongar section of the Central line in 1957, the service was operated by 2-car units of 1935 Stock until replacement by 1962 Stock several years later.

London Underground 1962 Stock

In addition, twelve cars (units 1416+1491, and unit 1744) were sold to the Epping Ongar Railway, but were scrapped after being destroyed by vandals while stabled at Ongar.

Royal Liberty of Havering

To the north of the liberty was much higher ground and the boundary with the Ongar hundred and the parishes of (west to east) Lambourne, Navestock and Stapleford Abbots.


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