Forest Gate
Coordinates: 51°33′03″N 0°01′39″E / 51.550832, 0.02739 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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Sovereign state	United Kingdom
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UK Parliament	West Ham
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Wanstead Flats, bordering Forest Gate.

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Its name is derived from a southern gate of Epping Forest which once stretched continuously down from Epping. Fragments of the forest remain throughout north east London and the heathland of Wanstead Flats, which borders Forest Gate, is an example. Wanstead Flats is preserved in music by the Kinks and more reccently rapper plan B. In December 1966 Jimi Hendrix wrote Purple Haze in the Upper Cut club, which later became the Ace of Clubs in Woodgrange Road. Epping Forest is an area of ancient woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex. ... High Street in Epping Epping is a market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex in the United Kingdom. ... Heaths are anthropogenic habitats found primarily in northern and western Europe, where they have been created by thousands of years of human clearance of natural forest vegetation by grazing and burning on mainly infertile acidic soils. ... Wanstead Flats is the southern-most portion of Epping Forest in east London. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... This article contains a trivia section. ...

Newham is quickly establishing itself as a centre of UK Urban Music and Grime Music within the UK. The borough is home to two of the top selling artists within the Grime scene who both hail from the Forest Gate district of Newham. The first is Kano, whose debut album 'Home Sweet Home' made number one in the urban charts and the second is rapper Plan B. The London Borough of Newham is a London borough in East London. ... Kane Brett Robinson (born 21 May 1985 in East Ham, London), better known as Kano, is a British rapper. ... Plan B may refer to: Plan B (colombian magazine) of Publicaciones SEMANA about Bogotá, the capital city. ...

Forest Gate is home to the oldest public house in the borough, The Old Spotted Dog (now closed), and nearby Clapton Football Club; it is also home to the northern half of the famous and busy Green Street (which runs down towards Upton Park). To the west lies Stratford town centre. The Channel Tunnel Rail Link runs underneath Forest Gate on its way into Stratford and London. Forest Gate also houses West Ham Park, providing a place for sports to be played and a contrast to the otherwise urban environment. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Clapton F.C. are an English association football club, who play in Forest Gate, east London (although they were originally from Clapton, which is several miles to the west). ... Green Street is a road in the London Borough of Newham, England. ... Upton Park is the name of an area in the London Borough of Newham. ... Stratford, historically Stratford Langthorne, is a place in the London Borough of Newham in East London. ... CTRL redirects here. ... West Ham Park is a public park in the London Borough of Newham. ...

The Woodgrange Estate is a residential conservation area in Forest Gate with predominantly double and triple fronted Victorian houses. The Woodgrange estate consists of four roads Windsor, Claremont, Osbourne and Hampton; all of which link to the Woodgrange road. Nearby Godwin Junior School in Forest Gate was recently honoured with the prestigious British Council’s International School Award. The school is among only 127 schools in the country to have received the three-year accreditation. The school's headteacher was named Teacher of the Year. Manchester Town Hall is an example of Victorian architecture found in Manchester, UK. The Carson Mansion is an example of a Victorian home in Eureka, California, USA The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. ... Logo of the British Council British Council building in London The British Council is a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom. ...

Forest Gate formed part of the County Borough of West Ham since its creation (initially as a municipal borough) in 1886. The county borough was abolished to form part of the present-day London Borough of Newham in 1965. West Ham is a place in the London Borough of Newham in east London. ...

2 June 2006 Forest Gate raid

Main article:2 June 2006 Forest Gate raid

The 2 June 2006 Forest Gate raid saw the arrest of two men at their east London homes in Forest Gate by police acting on intelligence that they might be terrorists in possession of a chemical bomb. ...

Trivia

• In December 1966 Jimi Hendrix wrote Purple Haze in the Upper Cut club, which later became the Ace of Clubs in Woodgrange Road. [1]
• In the 1960s Arnold Schwarzenegger lived in Forest Gate and regularly trained in Wag Bennett's Gym, on Romford Road.
• In the Plan B song, Raking the Dead, reference is made to a friend of the rapper who discovered a body on the Wanstead Flats flats Forest Gate.

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• The Newham Generals, who were signed by Dizzee Rascal personally for his record label 'Dirtee Stank', hail from Forest Gate. In the song 'Frontline' the video is shot at Forest Gate station, on Woodgrange road.

Dylan Mills, known professionally as Dizzee Rascal (born November 1, 1985), is a London-based MC/rapper and producer. ... Forest Gate railway station is located in the London Borough of Newham, in East London. ...

Nearby places include

• Manor Park
• Plaistow
• Stratford
• Upton Park

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• British police shoot man in anti-terrorism raid

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