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Grovewood Place, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 8PX

Repton Park is a housing development in a converted hospital. The hospital was built on the edge of London in the late 19th Century as an asylum for people with mental illnesses and disabilities. It closed in the 1990s.

Repton Park was named after Humphry Repton, the last great English landscape designer of the 18th century. He advised on landscaping the parkland of the Claybury estate which was developed into a fine gentleman's estate from 1786 by James Hatch. Hatch built a new mansion, expanded the estate and it was he who commissioned Humphry Repton. In 1887 the estate was sold and Claybury Asylum was built by 1893 on the brow of a hill, the first mental hospital built by the new London County Council. From 1893 to 1918 it was called Claybury Asylum, from 1918 to 1937 Claybury Mental Hospital, and from 1937 to its closure in 1995 Claybury Hospital In 1997 the Health Authority sold the Hospital estate for an exclusive private housing development, renamed Repton Park, but 18 hectares of ancient woodland and 38 hectares of parkland became part of a new public park, Claybury Park. This also incorporated Redbridge Open Space to the south, itself part of the Claybury estate until the 1880s. For more about Claybury Hospital see http://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/claybury/ and http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/claybury.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claybury_Hospital

For unknown reasons this was built side on to the road and invisible to the public.

The former Claybury Mental Hospital was originally Dr Barnardo's first Children's Home and is now converted to an executive housing gated community and re-named Repton Park (evidently after the landscape gardener Humphrey Repton, although he had no connection with the area).

The main part of Woodford Green lies alongside Woodford High Road (A104) to the west of the M11. This outlier to the east of the M11 has a pond as well as St Paul's Church, Woodford Bridge and is part of a Conservation Area.

The Three Jolly Wheelers was built in the early 19th century, and originally relied heavily on the tourist trade. A photograph of the inn taken in 1906 shows that the inn used to hire out horses and traps, which were most likely for day-trippers travelling to Epping Forest. It is just a few yards over the border from the London Borough of Redbridge into Essex.

On the A113 Chigwell Road, just on the Essex side of the boundary with Greater London.