Lower Road, Loughton
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Lower Road, Loughton by Robin Webster as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Lower Road, Loughton
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 1 Apr 2013
This was the earlier road from Epping to Loughton, Woodford and London. In 1771-75 a closely parallel road, Golding's Hill, was built by the Epping and Ongar Turnpike Trust to ease the gradient up the hill. This new road remains the local main road here, although the whole lot was bypassed when Epping New Road was opened through Epping Forest in 1834, and which became the A11, now the A104. A final stage of bypass for long distance traffic (beyond Epping) was when the southern part of the M11 opened in 1977.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
51.658257
Longitude
0.067254