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Forest Gate
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Forest Gate is a residential area in the London Borough of Newham.
Its name is derived from a southern gate of Epping Forest which once stretched continuously down from Epping. Fragments of the forest remain throughout north east London and the heathland of Wanstead Flats, which borders Forest Gate, is an example.
Forest Gate is home to the oldest public house in the borough, The Old Spotted Dog (now closed), and nearby Clapton Football Club; the northern half of the famous and busy Green Street also runs through it. To the west lies Stratford town centre. High Speed 1 runs underneath Forest Gate on its way into Stratford and London. Forest Gate also houses West Ham Park, providing a place for sports to be played and a contrast to the otherwise urban environment.
The Woodgrange Estate is a residential conservation area in Forest Gate with predominantly double and triple fronted Victorian houses. The Woodgrange estate consists of four roads Windsor, Claremont, Osbourne and Hampton; all of which link to the Woodgrange road. Nearby Godwin Junior School in Forest Gate was recently honoured with the prestigious British Council’s International School Award. The school is among only 127 schools in the country to have received the three-year accreditation. The school's headteacher was named Teacher of the Year.
Forest Gate has various musical associations; it was for many years the home of the Tonic Sol-Fa Institute, which taught large numbers of people to play music without learning conventional notation. In December 1966 Jimi Hendrix wrote Purple Haze in the Upper Cut Club, which later became the Ace of Clubs in Woodgrange Road [1], while members of the Small Faces lived nearby in Manor Park. Two of the top-selling Grime artists are Forest Gate; Kano, whose debut album 'Home Sweet Home' made number one in the urban charts and rapper Plan B, whose song, Raking the Dead, refers to a friend who discovered a body on Wanstead Flats[2]. The Newham Generals (D Double E & Footsie) are also from Forest Gate, and the video for their song 'Frontline' was filmed at Forest Gate station.
Forest Gate formed part of the County Borough of West Ham since its creation (initially as a municipal borough) in 1886. The county borough was abolished to form part of the present-day London Borough of Newham in 1965.
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- Elizabeth Fry - prison reformer, lived in Plashet House from 1809 to 1829
- Jimi Hendrix, Musician.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor, Politician. Lived in Forest Gate in the 1960s and regularly trained in Wag Bennett's Gym, on Romford Road.
Kano (rapper)|Kano]], Musician. Benjamin Zaphenia (Lives on romford Road) Sol Cambell (Went to Lister community school)
- For details of education in Forest Gate see the London Borough of Newham article
Forest Gate, Newham council tax bands and charges Site with information about the area
- Main article:2 June 2006 Forest Gate raid
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