Conservation Areas in Epping Forest District

The District Council has designated twenty-five conservation areas. These include;

• historic centres of towns (e.g. Epping, Chipping Ongar and Waltham Abbey);
• village centres (e.g. Abridge, Roydon, Chigwell and Moreton);
• historic landscapes (e.g. The Royal Gunpowder Factory in Waltham Abbey and the Maltings in Lower Sheering);
• registered historic parks and gardens (e.g. Copped Hall, Blake Hall and Hill Hall); and
• small hamlets (e.g. Abbess Roding, Matching and Coopersale Street).

For the latest news on conservation areas in the district including the latest Character Appraisals, please visit our Conservation Areas page.

List of Areas

For specific information on each conservation area, including recent character appraisals please click on the links below.

• Abbess Roding

• Abridge

• Baldwins Hill, Loughton

• Bell Common, Epping

• Blake Hall, Bobbingworth

• Chigwell Village

• Chipping Ongar

• Coopersale Street

• Copped Hall 

• Epping

• Great Stony School, Chipping Ongar

• High Ongar

• Hill Hall, Theydon Mount

• Lower Sheering

• Matching

• Matching Green

• Matching Tye

• Moreton

• Nazeing and South Roydon

• Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey (Royal Gunpowder Mills Website)

• Roydon Village

• Staples Road, Loughton

• Upshire

• Waltham Abbey

• York Hill, Loughton

A plan of each conservation area can be inspected at the Civic Offices in Epping, along with hard copies of recently published Character Appraisals.

Further Information

For further information on all conservation areas in the district, please download our leaflet by clicking on the link below.

Conservation Areas in the Epping Forest District (pdf 841KB)

Alternatively you may wish to contact us at contactLB@eppingforestdc.gov.uk or by telephoning 01992 564068.

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