Editing Snaresbrook

{{Short description|Area of East London}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name            = Snaresbrook
| static_image_name        = Snaresbrook_Crown_Court_-_geograph.org.uk_-_208524.jpg
| static_image_caption     = Eagle Pond and [[Snaresbrook Crown Court]]
| map_type                 = Greater London
| region                   = London
| country                  = England
| london_borough           = Redbridge
| london_borough2          = Waltham Forest
| constituency_westminster = [[Leyton and Wanstead (UK Parliament constituency)|Leyton & Wanstead]]
| post_town                = LONDON
| postcode_area            = E
| postcode_district        = E11
| dial_code                = 020
| os_grid_reference        = TQ395895
| coordinates              = {{coord|51.587027|0.014563|display=inline,title}}
| population               = 11,868
| population_ref           = (2011 Census.Ward)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13689020&c=Snaresbrook&d=14&e=62&g=6335760&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1476797132119&enc=1|title=Redbridge Ward population 2011|accessdate=18 October 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics| work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>
}}

'''Snaresbrook''' is a district in the [[London Borough of Redbridge]], in East London. It is located {{convert|8|mi|km|0|abbr=off|spell=in}} east of [[Charing Cross]].

The name derives from a corruption of Sayers brook, a tributary of the [[River Roding]] that flows through [[Wanstead]] to the East.

Snaresbrook is bounded approximately by [[South Woodford]] to the north, the lower reaches of [[Epping Forest]] and Upper [[Leytonstone]], [[Leyton]] and [[Walthamstow]] to the west, Leytonstone to the south and [[Wanstead]] to the east. Snaresbrook Ward in the London Borough of Redbridge covers most of Wanstead High Street. The ward forms part of the 2007 parliamentary boundary changes and is currently entirely within the parliamentary constituency of [[Leyton and Wanstead (UK Parliament constituency)]].

Snaresbrook's most notable building is [[Snaresbrook Crown Court]]. It was opened in 1843 as the Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum by [[Leopold I of Belgium|King Leopold]] I of Belgium, and later became the [[Royal National Children's Foundation|Royal Wanstead School]]. It was designed by Sir [[George Gilbert Scott]] and [[William Bonython Moffatt]].

==Demography==
According to the 2011 census, 57% of the population is White British, with the second and third largest ethnicities being Other White at 10% and Indian at 9%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/snaresbrook-e05000513|title=Snaresbrook - UK Census Data 2011}}</ref>

==Education==
Snaresbrook Primary is one of the schools in Snaresbrook.

Forest School was used in the filming of ''[[Never Let Me Go (2010 film)#Filming|Never Let Me Go]]'' for the Hailsham assembly scenes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=SNARESBROOK: Film crew descends on school|url=https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4456959.forest-school-in-snaresbrook-was-chosen-as-the-backdrop-for-never-let-me-go-starring-keira-knightley/|access-date=2021-05-05|website=East London and West Essex Guardian Series|language=en}}</ref>

==Transport and locale==
;Nearest areas
* [[Wanstead]]
* [[Leytonstone]]
* [[Leyton]]
* [[Woodford, London|Woodford]]
* [[Walthamstow]]

The nearest [[List of London Underground stations|London Underground station]] is [[Snaresbrook tube station|Snaresbrook]] on the [[Epping, Essex|Epping]] branch of the [[Central line (London Underground)|Central line]].

==References==
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* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42785 "British History Reports"]
* [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/uksi_20071681_en_1 "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007"]

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==Goofs/Errors==
In 2023 and 2024, Google Street View is inserting images from Chigwell in November 2008 into various Snaresbrook streets in the "Nov 2008" box. The reason they are doing this is currently unknown.

[[Category:Areas of London]]
[[Category:Districts of the London Borough of Redbridge]]


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