Loughton, Essex - High Beech / Beach Church - art postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  High Beech [or Beach] Church, Loughton, Essex
• Publisher:  R. V. Brown, Hockley, Essex
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Loughton /'la?t?n/ is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located between 11 and 13 miles (21 km) north east of Charing Cross in London, south of the M25 and west of the M11 motorway and has boundaries with Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill. Loughton includes three conservation areas and there are 56 listed buildings in the town, together with a further 50 locally listed.

The parish of Loughton covers an area of about 3,724 acres (15 km²),^[1] of which over 1,300 acres (5 km²) are part of Epping Forest. The ancient parish contained over 3,900 acres (16 km²), but in 1996 some parts of the south of the old parish were transferred to Buckhurst Hill parish, and other small portions to Chigwell and Theydon Bois. At the time of the 2001 census Loughton had a population of 30,340,^[2] and at the 2011 Census, 31,106. It is the most populous civil parish in the Epping Forest district, and within Essex it is the second most populous civil parish (after Canvey Island) and the second largest in area.

High Beach or High Beech is a hamlet in Essex, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Epping and 12.9 miles (20.8 km) north-east of London.^[1] It is the only settlement inside Epping Forest.^{[n 1]} It falls within the civil parish of Waltham Abbey.

High Beach is in the uplands of Essex, which reach heights of 110 metres (360 ft) above sea level on the western fringes of Epping Forest. Areas of the surrounding forest are also named High Beach or High Beech. However, individual smallholdings of land are given over to residential, agriculture and mixed uses, particularly beside the straight A-road which bisects it.^[2] Many of the forest paths are naturally gravel-lined with underlying deposits of Bagshot Sands. It is believed that the name High Beach came from an early description of the localised sand and gravel exposure in this part of the forest.^[3]

Holy Innocents church is surrounded by forest. It was rebuilt in 1873 by Thomas Baring, replacing an earlier church, and was designed by the architect Arthur Blomfield in the Early English style at the cost of £5,500. The 125 feet (38 m) tower and spire contains 13 hemispherical bells cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.^[4][5]

In July 1837, poet John Clare's deteriorating mental disorder caused him to be admitted to the High Beach private asylum under the guidance of the enlightened Dr Matthew Allen. The poet, after suffering from depression, was invited as a guest to Allen's asylum.^[6] Clare spent four years at the asylum before escaping in July 1841.^[7] Alfred, Lord Tennyson lived at Beech Hill House from 1837 to 1840. During his short stay he may well have encountered Clare and other inmates. Tennyson was reported by a journalist as being ""...delighted with the mad people...the most agreeable and the most reasonable persons he has met with.""^[5]

type=printed

city/ region=loughton

period=pre-1914

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)