WOODFORD, (Essex) near Chingford, had its name from the ford in the forest of Epping, where now is Woodford-Bridge. The
Lp. bel. formerly to Waltham-Abbey, but after the Diss. Henry VIII. granted it to John Lyon. It came in later times to Sir
Ben. Thorogood, whose son conveyed it, about 1707, to Sir Rich. Child, afterwards Ld. Castlemain, and then Earl Tilney,
who kept the manor, but sold the manor house to Chr. Crowe. who sold it again to William Hunt, the present resident. Here
lived Mr. Herbert, author of the Divine Poems. The custom of the manor is Bor.-English.