Blake Hall tube station
Disused railway station in Greensted, Essex, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blake Hall is a disused former station on the London Underground in the civil parish of Stanford Rivers, and south from the village of Bobbingworth in Essex. It was latterly on the Central line, between North Weald and Ongar, but was originally served by the Epping to Ongar shuttle service branch line.[1][2]
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Blake Hall | |
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Location | Greensted |
Local authority | Epping Forest |
Owner | Great Eastern Railway |
Number of platforms | 1 |
Key dates | |
24 April 1865 (1865-04-24) | Opened |
2 November 1981 (1981-11-02) | Closed |
Replaced by | None |
Other information | |
Coordinates | 51.7113°N 0.2044°E / 51.7113; 0.2044 |
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It was opened in 1865 and named after Blake Hall, a country house located a mile or so to the northeast and inhabited by the Capel-Cure family of substantial local land-owners. The station was closed in 1981.