FOREST GATE
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
FOREST-GATE, a village in West Ham parish, and a chapelry in West Ham and East Ham parishes, Essex. The village stands adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, near Epping Forest, 114; mile ENE of Stratford; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Stratford, London E. The chapelry was constituted in 1852. Pop., 3,792. Houses, 584. Pop., of the West Ham portion, 3,437. Houses, 524. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, 220. Patron, alternately the Vicar of West Ham and the Vicar of East Ham.
Transcribed by Noel Clark