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Someone's going to get a diamond geezer predictable comment award today
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I feel an idiot for having grown up and having spent my entire childhood no more than a bus ride away from there.... And not even having given any thought at all to why Leytonstone was called that. Not even before reading this post. Thanks!
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Wealdstone also has its stone in the “wrong” place (Harrow Weald).
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Miles, Furlongs, and Paces?
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Miles, Furlongs, Poles (or perches). This |
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How did I miss the first 70 parts?
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I love this post! Now I know that the Waltham Forest - Redbridge boundary can be identified by a move from steel to aluminium lamp-posts...
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I've thought for a while that Lea Bridge is a stupid name for a station, when the bridge itself is nearer to Clapton Station. I've just realised that Low Leyton would be a great name for the station.
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Regarding the relative importance of the junctions... before the M11 was built, Hollybush Hill was the A11, as was Leytonstone High Road, so it was a much more significant through route, and much busier, than it is now (the High Road now seems to be unclassified – it used to be fully railed on both sides and you could only cross it on a footbridge). The Green Man roundabout was also a lot smaller before the M11 link road (now designated the A12) was built through it – though it was always big enough to have subways – going through them was hugely exciting when I was growing up.
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I blame the railways, once Leytonstone was called Leytonstone that was that.
A 1921 map referrers to it as 'The High Stone' and calls it 'Roman Milestone (Site of)'. An 1894 map makes no mention of the location but does reference an area called Low Leyton (which isn't referenced in the 1921 version). |
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The 'Green Man' has been an important road junction for several centuries. The current interchange was constructed in the late 1990s, and the previous smaller roundabout was built in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Before then, all the roads there met in a series of crossroads and traffic lights - no roundabout at all.
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Interesting that the distance is to Cornhill and not Charing Cross - maybe they just copied the distances from the old obelisk in 1933.
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Anyone know what's happened to the High Stone??? Went past it today and it is gone!!!
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