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Epping Upland is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.〔Hagger, Nicholas; ''A View of Epping Forest'', O Books (2012), p. 29. ISBN 1846945879〕 The village is situated on the B181 road, approximately south from the town of Harlow, and north-west from the town of Epping and the M11 motorway. Epping Upland parish church is dedicated to All Saints, with the Epping Upland ecclesiastical parish part of the Diocese of Chelmsford.〔(Epping Upland: "All Saints, Epping Upland" ), Diocese of Chelmsford〕 The church dates to the 13th century and is Grade II * listed.〔 Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, All Saints was under the jurisdiction of Waltham Abbey. In the first half of the 19th century part of today's town of Epping was within the civil parish of Epping Upland and was part of the ecclesiastical parish centred on All Saints'. The south-eastern urban and market part of Epping Upland joined the hamlet of Epping Street to become the town of Epping.〔White, William; ''White's Directory of Essex 1848''〕〔Lewis, Samuel (1840), ''A Topographical Dictionary of England: Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate & Market Towns...'', p. 160. Reprint Nabu Press (2014). ISBN 129451864X〕〔Gorton, John; ''A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland; Compiled from Local Information, and the Most Recent and Official Authorities'' (1833), p. 741. Reprint Nabu Press (2011). ISBN 1178780511〕 In 1831 the village of Epping Upland had a population of 427 within 83 houses. At the time, four-fifths of the village population was employed in agricultural, with that of its parish, two-fifths.〔''The Penny Cyclopædia'' of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1831) Vols 9-10, p. 21. Reprint Ulan Press (2012)〕〔Oxley, James Edwin (1965); ''Reformation in Essex to the Death of Mary'', Manchester University Press, p. 159. ISBN 0719000939〕 Among further listed Epping Upland village buildings is Takeleys, a Grade II timber framed house, as part of a moated site, which dates to the 16th century (''Pevsner'': early 17th), with 18th-century alterations. It contains an "elaborately carved" chimney piece and, in an upper room, 17th-century brown and black wall paintings in floral style on plasterwork.〔Pevsner, Nikolaus; Radcliffe, Enid; ''Essex'' (The Buildings of England), Penguin Books (1974) p. 175. ISBN 0140710116〕 On 8 September 1944 the first launched Second World War German V-2 rocket landed at Epping Upland.〔("2754 people Killed in Enemy's Rocket Bomb Attacks" ), ''The Glasgow Herald'', 27 April 1945, p. 4. Retrieved 9 March 2015〕 The local primary school is Epping Upland C of E Primary School. ==Civil parish== Epping Upland civil parish stretches from the southern outskirts of Harlow at the north to below the M25 motorway at the south, a distance of approximately , and a distance of 3 miles west from Thornwood Common at the east. The village of Epping Green and the hamlet of Rye Hill are situated just inside the northern edge of the civil parish. In 2001 the population of Epping Upland was 790.〔("Epping Upland CP (Parish)" ), Office for National Statistics〕 The parish includes at the south the earthwork remains of the scheduled Ambresbury Banks, an Iron Age hill fort.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Epping Upland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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