Greensted
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Greensted is a small village in the civil parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It was formerly a separate civil parish, but was merged into Ongar in 1965. It remains an ecclesiastical parish under the name Greensted-juxta-Ongar. The small settlement of Greensted itself is on Greensted Road, approximately to the west of Chipping Ongar; a little further west is Greensted Green. Greensted Church is reputedly one of the oldest surviving wooden churches in the world, dating back to Saxon times.
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It is catalogued under topics including Epping Forest District, Former civil parishes in Essex and Villages in Essex.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Epping Forest
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Ongar
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Greensted Church with snow.JPG
- Dialing code
- 01277
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Greensted is a small village in the civil parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It was formerly a separate civil parish, but was merged into Ongar in 1965. It remains an ecclesiastical parish under the name Greensted-juxta-Ongar. The small settlement of Greensted itself is on Greensted Road, approximately to the west of Chipping Ongar; a little further west is Greensted Green. Greensted Church is reputedly one of the oldest surviving wooden churches in the world, dating back to Saxon times.
==Toponymy== The name Greensted is Old English and means "green place". The spellings Greenstead and Greensted were historically used interchangeably; in the 19th century, government accounts used Greenstead, but the Ordnance Survey used the spelling Greensted, which has come to be the modern spelling.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Greensted” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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