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Roding Valley is the most lightly used station on the Underground, and since 5 February 2006 this has been one of the small number of stations on the network to have no staffed ticket office, however staff are available 24 hours a day for customer information and the train service has been extended to midnight to take into account the rising passenger numbers.
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A train of 1992 tube stock approaching Roding Valley
Roding Valley is a London Underground station situated in Buckhurst Hill in the Epping Forest district of Essex immediately to the north of the border with Woodford in the London Borough of Redbridge.
With roughly 210, 000 passengers a year, Roding Valley is the least-used station on the entire Underground network, passenger numbers have remained flat for the period 2008-2010.
The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway ( GER ) on its Woodford to Ilford line ( the Fairlop Loop ).
It was originally named " Roding Valley Halt " ( though while the full name appeared on tickets and timetables, the word " Halt " appeared on only some of the station signage ), and was opened to serve new housing developments between Buckhurst Hill and Woodford.
At the build up to the peak periods, some trains starting from Hainault depot operate to central London via Grange Hill, Chigwell, Roding Valley and Woodford, although this service is provided merely for operating convenience rather than passenger demand.
Roding Players is an amateur orchestra which rehearses at Roding Valley High School and gives three concerts a year in the Epping Forest area ; composer Miles Harwood is Musical Director.
Another children's writer, Winifred Darch ( 1884 – 1960 ), taught at Loughton County High School for Girls 1906 – 1935 ( now Roding Valley High School ), as did the hymnodist and poet, Emily Chisholm ( 1910 – 1991 ), who lived in Loughton at 3 Lower Park Rd.
* Football-At the Roding Valley Recreation Ground and Willingale Road Playing Fields a variety of local football teams play.
The Town Council maintains tennis courts on the Roding Valley, but those which are part of the Loughton Bowls and Lawn Tennis Club are disused.
* Roding Valley High School
From 1933 to 1958 there was an RAF presence based at Roding Valley Meadows ( near what is now the David Lloyd Leisure Centre ).
Some of the RAF Chigwell site is now part of the local nature reserve, Roding Valley Meadows LNR.
There is a local nature reserve at Roding Valley Meadows off Roding Lane which follows the River Roding up to Loughton.
In 1948, the New Works Programme of the London Passenger Transport Board brought the London Underground services of the Central line to six stations in the district ; namely Roding Valley, Chigwell, Grange Hill, Buckhurst Hill, Loughton and Debden.
Buckhurst Hill is served by Buckhurst Hill tube station and Roding Valley tube station, which are on the Central Line of the London Underground.
There is a second Central Line station in Buckhurst Hill at Roding Valley, on the Hainault Loop.
Flood meadow s by the river near Chigwell, looking towards Loughton, at Roding Valley Meadows Nature Reserve The river then runs past Loughton and between Chigwell and Woodford Green where the Roding Valley Meadows make up the largest surviving area of traditionally managed river-valley habitat in Essex.
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It is formed from Old English ' hamm ' and means ' a dry area of land between rivers or marshland ', referring the location of the settlement within boundaries formed by the rivers Lea, Thames and Roding and their marshes.
It was named after the River Roding which is close by, to the east.
It is formed from Old English ' hamm ' and means ' a dry area of land between rivers or marshland ', referring the location of the settlement within boundaries formed by the rivers Lea, Thames and Roding and their marshes.
His father is the British politician and life peer Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding, a descendant of the scientist Fleeming Jenkin.
A David Lloyd Leisure Centre is situated off Roding Road by the M11 motorway, which offers indoor and outdoor tennis courts, swimming pools and gymnasium.
Chigwell Cricket Club is based at the Old Chigwellians Club in Roding Lane.
Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, PC ( born 7 September 1926 ) is a British Conservative politician and the great-grandson of the scientist Fleeming Jenkin.
Lord Jenkin of Roding is president of the Foundation for Science and Technology, and is a vice-president of the Local Government Association.
Ilford North is composed of the local government wards of Aldborough, Barkingside, Woodford Bridge, Clayhall, Fairlop, Fullwell, Hainault, and Roding.
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The meadows stretch down to the M11 motorway and Roding Valley tube station is situated close to the area, although Debden, Loughton, or Buckhurst Hill are better placed for a visit.
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Ilford was historically a small rural settlement in the county of Essex and its strategic position on the River Roding and the London to Colchester road caused it to develop as a coaching town.
South of this stretch, where the road runs on soft ground close to the River Roding, concrete was considered unsuitable due to the looseness of the subsoil and the consequent risk of random cracking, so the road surface here was of tarmac from the start.
The forest lies on a ridge between the valleys of the rivers Lea and Roding ; its elevation and thin gravelly soil ( the result of glaciation ) historically made it unsuitable for agriculture.
Ilford takes its name from Ilefort, " ford on the River Hyle ", which was the mediaeval name for part of the Roding.
The school was combined with two other schools in 1989 to become Roding Valley High School, located on a different site.
It is located on the Hainault Loop of the Central Line and is between Grange Hill and Roding Valley stations.
* http :// www. essexchurches. info-Abbess Roding Church on Essex Churches website
It is on the River Roding, southwest of the county town of Chelmsford.
It takes its name from the brick bridge over the River Roding, which is situated just to the north of the modern centre, on the road to Theydon Bois.
Abridge lies on the historically important stagecoach route between London and Chipping Ongar and has been an important crossing point of the River Roding for many centuries.
It lies on the River Roding and is surrounded by a rural area.
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North Woolwich also became part of the borough ( previously being in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, in the County of London ) along with a small area west of the River Roding which had previously been part of the Municipal Borough of Barking.
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Abbess Roding is one of eight hamlets and villages called The Rodings in Essex, England.
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