Snaresbrook

Infobox UK place
official_name= Snaresbrook
map_type= Greater London
region= London
country= England
london_borough= Redbridge
london_borough2= Waltham Forest
constituency_westminster= Leyton & Wanstead
post_town= LONDON
postcode_area= E
postcode_district= E11
dial_code= 020
os_grid_reference= TQ395895
latitude= 51.587027
longitude= 0.014563

Snaresbrook is an area of north-east London, mostly in the London Borough of Redbridge. A small part falls within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It was part of Essex until 1965.

The name derives from a corruption of Sayers brook, a tributary of the River Roding that flows through Wanstead to the East.

Snarebrook is bounded approximately by South Woodford to the north, the lower reaches of Epping Forest and Upper Leytonstone and Walthamstow to the west, Leytonstone to the south and Wanstead to the east. However, Snaresbrook Ward in the London Borough of Redbridge covers most of Wanstead High Street.

Snaresbrook's most notable building is Snaresbrook Crown Court. It was opened in 1843 as an Infant Orphan Asylum by King Leopold of Belgium, and later became a school. It was designed by Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt.

Snaresbrook Primary is one of the schools in Snaresbrook.

Transport and locale

;Nearest areas
* Wanstead
* Leytonstone
* Woodford
* Walthamstow

References

* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42785 "British History Reports"]