Loughton

Loughton is a suburban development in the Epping Forest district of Essex.

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Loughton covers about 3,500 acres (14 km?), of which over 1,300 acres (5 km?) are open forest land and has a population of about 30,000. The town is principally residential, but is also home to the Bank of England's printing works, where all English banknotes are printed.

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It is part of the London commuter belt and within the north easterly bounds of the M25 motorway. It has a London Underground station on the Central Line and a London (020) area code as it is close to the Greater London boundary.

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Much of the the housing in Loughton was built in the 1930s. Nearby suburban Debden is a post-war development intended to ease the cronic housing shortage in London in the 1940s.

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From 1933 to 1974 it formed together with Buckhurst Hill and Chigwell to form the Chigwell Urban District. Today Loughton has its own town council.

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Epping Forest: Epping Forest is an area of ancient woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex. Formed in approximately 8000 BC after the last ice age, it covers nearly 6,000 acres (24 km²) and contains areas of grassland, heath, rivers, bogs and ponds. St...

Essex: :This article is about the county of Essex in England. For other places named Essex, see Essex (disambiguation)....

Bank of England: The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom, sometimes known as "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" or "The Old Lady"....