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Epping is a market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district
of the county of Essex in England.
Epping is widely known in Germany for being the home of Peter, David, Betty and
Helga, featured in many textbooks used to teach English to German children. It is
twinned with the German town of Eppingen in northwest Baden-Württemberg. Although
the once-famous Epping Butter, which was highly sought after in the 18th and 19th
centuries, is no longer made, the equally well-known Epping sausages are still manufactured
by Church's Butchers who have been trading on the same site since 1888.
Epping lies about 17 miles north-east of the centre of London towards the northern
end of Epping Forest on a ridge of land between the River Roding and River Lea valleys.
The town had just over 11,000 inhabitants in 2001.
Most of the population live in the built up area centred on the main road (B1393)
and station. About a thousand people live in the large hamlet (or small village)
of Coopersale which, while physically separated from Epping by forest land, is still
part of the civil parish. A few dozen households make up the hamlets of Coopersale
Street and Fiddlers Hamlet. Much of the eastern part of the present parish was until
1895 in the parish of Theydon Garnon.
It lies north of the M11/M25 junction at Theydon Garnon and is near to M25 junction
26 (Waltham Abbey, Essex) and M11 junction 7 (Harlow). Epping Town F.C. were the
local side until they became defunct in 1984. |
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