Matching Green

Matching Green
Matching Green
	The Chequers public house
	Matching Green Location within Essex
Population	636
Civil parish	Matching;
District	Epping Forest;
Shire county	Essex;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HARLOW
Postcode district	CM17
Dialling code	01279
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Brentwood and Ongar;
	List of places UK England Essex 51°46′37″N 0°13′30″E / 51.777°N 0.225°E

Matching Green is a village and the largest settlement in the civil parish of Matching, in Essex, England. It is 3.0 miles (4.8 km) east of Harlow, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north-west of Chipping Ongar and 3.9 miles (6.3 km) south-east of Sawbridgeworth.

Matching Green has one of the largest village greens in Essex. The green is almost triangular in shape, covers 5.6 hectares (13.8 acres), contains the local cricket field, and is edged by mainly detached cottages and houses dating from the 14th to 19th century, twenty-eight of which are listed buildings. The village public house is The Chequers at the western edge of the green.

The site of the former RAF Matching lies to the east of village.

Matching parish settlements[edit]

Carter's Green
Housham Tye
Matching
Matching Green
Matching Tye
Newman's End

Transport[edit]

Bus[edit]

Route Number	Route	Operational Details
47	Harlow to Moreton via Matching Green	Tue-Sat (1 return journey)
147	Harlow to Ongar via Matching Green	Wed Only (1 return journey)

References[edit]

^ Parish Profile : Matching Archived 2004-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. Epping Forest District Council.

External links[edit]

Media related to Matching Green at Wikimedia Commons
Matching Green Local History
Matching Parish Council
Matching Green Cricket Club
Matching Green Primary School

[1] Parish Profile : Matching Archived 2004-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. Epping Forest District Council.

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v t e Epping Forest District
Parishes	Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding Bobbingworth Buckhurst Hill Chigwell Epping Epping Upland Fyfield High Laver and Little Laver High Ongar Lambourne Loughton Magdalen Laver Matching Moreton Nazeing North Weald Bassett Ongar Roydon Sheering Stanford Rivers Stapleford Abbotts Stapleford Tawney Theydon Bois Theydon Garnon Theydon Mount Waltham Abbey Willingale
Other notable settlements	Abridge Chipping Ongar Clatterford End Colliers Hatch Epping Green Foster Street Greensted Hastingwood Hobbs Cross, Theydon Garnon Hobbs Cross, Matching Housham Tye Marden Ash Matching Green Matching Tye Newman's End Shelley Tawney Common Threshers Bush Thornwood Toot Hill Waltham Abbey
Attractions	Epping Forest (woodland) Epping Ongar Railway Greensted Church North Weald Airfield
Constituencies	Epping Forest Brentwood and Ongar

v t e Ceremonial county of Essex
Unitary authorities	Southend-on-Sea Thurrock
Boroughs or districts	Basildon Braintree Brentwood Castle Point Chelmsford Colchester Epping Forest Harlow Maldon Rochford Tendring Uttlesford
Major settlements (cities in italics)	Aveley Basildon Billericay Braintree Brentwood Brightlingsea Buckhurst Hill Burnham-on-Crouch Canvey Island Chadwell St Mary Chelmsford Chigwell Chipping Ongar Clacton-on-Sea Coggeshall Colchester Corringham Dovercourt Epping Frinton-on-Sea Grays Great Dunmow Hadleigh Halstead Harlow Harwich Leigh-on-Sea Loughton Maldon Manningtree Pitsea Purfleet Rayleigh Rochford Saffron Walden Shoeburyness South Benfleet South Ockendon Southend-on-Sea South Woodham Ferrers Stanford-le-Hope Thaxted Thundersley Tilbury Waltham Abbey Walton-on-the-Naze West Mersea West Thurrock Wickford Witham Wivenhoe See also: List of civil parishes in Essex
Rivers	Blackwater Brain Cam Can Chelmer Ching Cobbins Brook Colne Crouch River Lea River Lee Flood Relief Channel Mardyke Pincey Brook Prittle Brook Roach Roding Roman Stort Stour Stour Brook Ter
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