Debden, Loughton

#14 among attractions in Loughton

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Debden is a suburb in the civil parish of Loughton, in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. It takes its name from the ancient manor of Debden, which lay at its northern end. The area is predominantly residential, but is also the location of Epping Forest College, East 15 Acting School and the De La Rue printing works. It is one of a limited number of places outside Greater London to be served by the London Underground. ()

Coordinates: 51°38'44"N, 0°5'2"E

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Loughton United Kingdom

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Debden – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Chingford Green, Epping Forest, Anti-Air War Memorial, Loughton Camp.

3.3 miW
Golf
Chingford Green, London
84 min walk • Chingford Green Ward is a political division of the London Borough of Waltham Forest and is one of the six Waltham Forest wards of the Chingford and Woodford Green Constituency represented by Iain Duncan Smith MP.
1.8 miNW
Ancient woodland with lakes and ponds
Epping Forest, Loughton
45 min walk • Epping Forest is a 2,400-hectare area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, which straddles the border between Greater London and Essex. The main body of the forest stretches from Epping in the north, to Chingford on the edge of the London built-up area.
3.2 miSW
Memorial
Anti-Air War Memorial, London
81 min walk • The Anti–Air War Memorial is located in Woodford Green, London, England. It was commissioned and erected by the socialist suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst in 1935 as "a protest against war in the air". It is Britain's first anti-war memorial, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building.
1.7 miNW
Forts and castles
Loughton Camp, Loughton
44 min walk • Loughton Camp is an Iron Age Hill fort in Epping Forest, one mile northwest of the town of Loughton. The camp's earthworks cover an area of approximately 10 acres and are visible today as a low bank and ditch encircling the main camp.
2.9 miW
Museum, Vernacular architecture, History museum
Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge, London
75 min walk • Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge is a Grade II* listed former hunting lodge, now a museum, on the edge of Epping Forest, at 8 Rangers Road, Chingford, London E4, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, near Greater London's boundary with Essex.
2.9 miW
Hill
Lippitts Hill, Loughton
74 min walk • Lippitts Hill is a hill located at High Beach, Epping Forest, Essex. It has played several historic roles in the defence and policing of London.
2.6 miSE
Park
Hainault Forest
68 min walk • Hainault Forest Country Park is a Country Park located in Greater London, with portions in: Hainault in the London Borough of Redbridge; the London Borough of Havering; and in the Lambourne parish of the Epping Forest District in Essex.
1.1 miW
Specialty museum, Museum
National Jazz Archive, Loughton
28 min walk • The National Jazz Archive is a collection of materials pertaining to jazz and blues that is kept at the Loughton Library in Essex, England. The archive was founded by British trumpeter Digby Fairweather in 1998 and contains visual and print materials from the 1920s to the present.
2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Great Monk Wood, Loughton
51 min walk • Great Monk Wood is a wood within Epping Forest, in Essex, England. The wood, in the parish of Loughton, is centred on the Wakes Arms junction roundabout of the A104 Epping New Road, and the A121, and is southwest from the town of Epping and north from Loughton.
2 miSW
Park
Vange Hill, Loughton
51 min walk • Vange Hill is an 11.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Vange, a suburb of Basildon in Essex. It is owned and managed by Basildon Borough Council. The site has grassland and scrub woodland, surrounded by a drainage ditch.
1.5 miSW
Memorial
Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College, Chigwell
39 min walk • Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College is an independent faith school in Chigwell, Essex. It occupies the buildings of the former Buckhurst Hill County High School for Boys. The school was judged Inadequate by Ofsted in three consecutive inspections up to 2019. In 2020 it was judged Good.