Notable in this area is Michael Leyton, professor of psychology at Rutgers University.

* 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton ; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.

Chingford is part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, which also includes the areas of Walthamstow, Leyton, and Leytonstone.

The town is served by many bus routes, linking it to Walthamstow, Loughton, Leyton, Woodford, Waltham Abbey and Harlow.

It is bordered to the west by Hackney Central, to the north by Lower Clapton, in the east by Hackney Wick, Leyton and by South Hackney to the south.

Leyton is an area of east London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, located north east of Charing Cross.

Leyton is in the Lower Lea Valley, the river forming its western boundary, and it straddles the Prime Meridian.

The yard ( named after an ancient mill owned by the Knights Templar ) is now reduced in size as part of it has become a retail park ' Leyton Mills ', whilst the rest has been renovated to serve as a depot for high speed trains.

A new retail park is to be found at Leyton Mills.

Large scale redevelopment and inner city regeneration has been underway in Leyton for many years, as is also the case in the neighbouring areas of Hackney, Clapton and Stratford.

The town is the home to two football clubs ; Leyton Orient F. C.

Leyton Library is another educational landmark to see.

There is also a college, Leyton Sixth Form College.

Leyton is served by the Central Line of London Underground, with a station located at the southern end of the High Road.

Leyton station is served by routes 58, 69, 97, 158, 308.

The ward forms part of the 2007 parliamentary boundary changes and is currently entirely within the parliamentary constituency of Leyton and Wanstead ( UK Parliament constituency )

Stratford is located in the northwestern extremity of the London Borough of Newham and borders to the west with Hackney Wick in the London Borough of Hackney and Bow in London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and to the north with Leyton in London Borough of Waltham Forest.

Walthamstow is bordered to the north by Chingford, south by Leyton and Leytonstone, east by the southern reaches of Epping Forest at Woodford and west by Tottenham and the River Lea valley.

Dalton is home to Leyton Public High School Leyton Public Schools

Leyton Public High School is home to the Leyton Warriors.

He is a well-known supporter of Leyton Orient and writes a regular column in the Leyton Orient programme.

For most of 2005 he was the public relations face of the Bangladeshi Women's Society, a charity based in Leyton, East London, and managed to keep his work running a supplementary school separate from his writing.

Leyton borders the Olympic Park for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Leyton has a number of secondary schools, including, George Mitchell School, The Lammas School and Norlington School for Boys.

The London Velopark which will be constructed in Leyton, which will include a 6, 000-seat indoor velodrome for track cycling and a 6, 000-seat outdoor BMX racing track.

* Council Tax for Leyton and Borough of Waltham Forest

The school colors for the Leyton Warriors are cardinal and gold.

Plans for an ' Eastern Avenue ' leading from London had been proposed as early as 1915 and the Eastern Avenue Extension was causing local concern in Leyton and Hackney during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

A second survey carried out by the king's commissioners, Thomas Legh and Richard Leyton, provided for the final suppression on charges of a lack of quality of religious life.

* National Rail station code for the Leyton Midland Road railway station, United Kingdom

In the latter part of his life — possibly about 1596, when he published his Wits Miserie and the World's Madnesse, which is dated from Low Leyton in Essex, and the religious tract Prosopopeia ( if, as seems probable, it was his ), in which he repents him of his " lewd lines " of other days — he became a Catholic and engaged in the practice of medicine, for which Wood says he qualified himself by a degree at Avignon in 1600.

* Smallest away attendance for a league match: 473 vs Leyton on 8 September 2007 in the Isthmian League Premier Division.

" He attended Leyton County High School for Boys, though prior to this he was a pupil at Chatham House Grammar School, in Ramsgate, Kent, whose notable alumni include former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath.

With 996 Football League matches to his name, Shilton was anxious to reach the 1, 000 mark and this he did when he joined Leyton Orient in November 1996, in an exchange deal for 39-year-old Les Sealey.

John Robert Cryer ( born 11 April 1964 ) is an English Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Leyton and Wanstead since the general election in May 2010.

Harry Michael Cohen ( born 10 December 1949 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Leyton and Wanstead from 1983 to 2010.

His wife Ann Cryer was MP for Keighley between 1997 and 2010, and their son John Cryer is the MP for Leyton and Wanstead.

By the end of the season despite remaining in the automatic promotion places for the majority of the season, the Grimsby had seen Carlisle United, Northampton Town and Leyton Orient pass them which would see The Mariners go into the final day of the season in 4th place with a chance of beating Orient to 3rd spot and an initial automatic promotion place well within reach.

The O's also played pre-season friendlies at Leyton Cricket Ground for several seasons.

Previously known as Osborne Road and having been the home of Leyton F. C., it initially had only one stand ( known as " the orange box ") on the east side that held 475 people, and cover on the west side for standing.

It was agreed that the club should sell a c. 999-year lease on the West Stand for £ 1. 5 million to a consortium led by Barry Hearn ( under the company name Samuel Beadie ( Leyton ) Ltd, or SBLL ), with SBLL leasing back to the club on a same-length lease all of the stand except the office space for an annual rent of £ 1.