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Chingford

Chingford is a suburban town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

Chingford
Chingford · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Chingford is a suburban town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Situated in the Lea Valley, around 9+1⁄2 miles north-east of Charing Cross, it lies between the River Lea in the west and Epping Forest in the north and east. It borders Waltham Abbey to the north; Loughton, Buckhurst Hill, and Woodford to the east; and Walthamstow to the south, with Edmonton and Enfield to the west. At the 2021 census, it had a population of approximately 70,583.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chingford

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

    Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in London, England. It is owned and operated by the Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, replacing the club's previous ground, White Hart Lane.

    5.6 km · stadium in London, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gilwell Park

    Gilwell Park is the headquarters and principal camp site of The Scout Association in the United Kingdom. It is a 109-acre site on the northeastern outskirts of London, located within Epping Forest in the Sewardstonebury area of Waltham Abbey, near the border with Chingford.

    3.1 km · UK camp site and activity centre for Scouting and Guiding groups and other youth organizations · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    William Morris Gallery

    The William Morris Gallery is a museum devoted to the life and works of William Morris, an English Arts and Crafts designer and early socialist. It is located in Walthamstow at Water House, a substantial Grade II* listed Georgian home.

    4.1 km · museum in Walthamstow, London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Northumberland Development Project

    The Northumberland Development Project is a mixed-use development project that centres around Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England. On opening in April 2019, the stadium had a capacity for 62,062 spectators, later increased to 62,303, and was designed to host football as well as NFL games.

    5.6 km · future Tottenham Hotspur stadium · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lee Valley Park

    Lee Valley Regional Park is a 10,000-acre 26 miles long linear park, much of it green spaces, running through the northeast of Greater London, Essex and Hertfordshire. The park follows the course of the River Lea along the Lea Valley from Ware in Hertfordshire through Essex and the north east of Greater London, through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to East India Docks Basin on the River Thames.

    4.9 km · park in the Lee Valley · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary the Virgin, Wanstead is a Church of England church in Wanstead, east London. It is located on Overton Drive and now shares its parish with Christ Church, Wanstead.

    6 km · historic church in Wanstead, Redbridge, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue

    Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Wanstead, in the Borough of Redbridge, London, England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation is a member of the Movement for Reform Judaism.

    4.4 km · synagogue in the UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Waltham Forest Town Hall

    Waltham Forest Town Hall is a municipal building located in Walthamstow, East London. The town hall, which is the headquarters of Waltham Forest London Borough Council, is a Grade II Listed Building.

    3.9 km · municipal building of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, Greater London · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Chingford

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 33 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 37 km · London Luton (LTN), 38 km
Stations
Blackhorse Road station, 5.3 km · Woodford tube station, 2.5 km · Walthamstow Central station, 4.9 km · Snaresbrook tube station, 4.8 km · South Woodford tube station, 3.7 km
  • London → Chingford
    16 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £2–2.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Chingford
    161 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £17–23
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chingford
    167 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chingford

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chingford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.

From Wikivoyage: London/East, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    139 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    328 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    384 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    555 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    591 km

If you know how people move in Chingford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Chingford

Chingford is 12 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.