Green Street, E.7

Forest Gate is a residential district in East London, England, in the London Borough of Newham. The area has never been an administrative unit and so has never had any formal boundaries, though it is often seen as conterminous with the E7 (Forest Gate) postal area, and as such lies on both sides of the boundary between West and East Ham. The area lies roughly 7 miles northeast of Charing Cross and is bordered by Manor Park to the east and Stratford town centre to the west. Forest Gate is 1. 5 miles east of Westfield Stratford City and the 2012 Olympic Park. The northern half of the busy Green Street runs through it and from 2018 it will have a Crossrail station. HistoryThe first known record of the name ‘Forest Gate’ comes from the West Ham parish registers of the late 17th century and describes a gate placed across the modern Woodford Road to prevent cattle straying from the open Wanstead Flats area of Epping Forest onto the main Roman Road (Romford road) linking Camulodunum to Londinium. The gate was located close to the former Eagle & Child public house. It never was a toll gate and was demolished along with the keepers' cottage in 1881. At the time of the gate’s construction, the Forest and it’s mosaic of habitats (coppice woodland, common grazing and wood pasture) extended from Epping to the Romford Road where a coppice woodland called ‘Hamfrith’ (Meaning the woodland belonging to the Ham area) Wood which existed until around 1700, formed the southernmost point.

Forest Gate is a residential district in East London, England, in the London Borough of Newham. The area has never been an administrative unit and so has never had any formal boundaries, though it is often seen as conterminous with the E7 (Forest Gate) postal area, and as such lies on both sides of the boundary between West and East Ham. The area lies roughly 7 miles northeast of Charing Cross and is bordered by Manor Park to the east and Stratford town centre to the west. Forest Gate is 1. 5 miles east of Westfield Stratford City and the 2012 Olympic Park. The northern half of the busy Green Street runs through it and from 2018 it will have a Crossrail station. HistoryThe first known record of the name ‘Forest Gate’ comes from the West Ham parish registers of the late 17th century and describes a gate placed across the modern Woodford Road to prevent cattle straying from the open Wanstead Flats area of Epping Forest onto the main Roman Road (Romford road) linking Camulodunum to Londinium. The gate was located close to the former Eagle & Child public house. It never was a toll gate and was demolished along with the keepers' cottage in 1881. At the time of the gate’s construction, the Forest and it’s mosaic of habitats (coppice woodland, common grazing and wood pasture) extended from Epping to the Romford Road where a coppice woodland called ‘Hamfrith’ (Meaning the woodland belonging to the Ham area) Wood which existed until around 1700, formed the southernmost point.