Editing Hornchurch (section)

===Origins===
In the [[Anglian (stage)|Anglian]] Ice Age, 450,000 years ago, the ice sheet reached The Dell, just south of St Andrew's Church, the furthest south any ice sheet reached in Britain. [[Hornchurch Cutting]] is a [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]] just north of St Andrews Park which exhibits the geology.<ref>{{cite web| title=Geology Site Account, Hornchurch Railway Cutting| publisher=The Essex Field Club| url=http://www.essexfieldclub.org.uk/portal/p/Geology+Site+Account/s/Hornchurch+Railway+Cutting+SSSI| access-date=3 June 2012| archive-date=2 April 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402213504/http://www.essexfieldclub.org.uk/portal/p/Geology+Site+Account/s/Hornchurch+Railway+Cutting+SSSI| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.essexfieldclub.org.uk/portal/p/Geology+Site+Account/s/The+Dell |publisher=The Essex Field Club |title= Geology Site Account, The Dell| access-date=3 June 2012}}</ref> [[Stone Age]] tools, [[Bronze Age]] and [[Iron Age]] artefacts have been discovered in Hornchurch, indicating a lengthy occupation in pre-history. Roman remains, sufficient to indicate a settlement have also been found in South Hornchurch.