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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 304 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WANSTEAD , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:Romford See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England, forming a residential suburb of See also:London, on a See also:branch of the See also:Great Eastern railway, 8 m. N.E. of See also:Liverpool See also:Street station. Pop. (1901) 9179. Wanstead See also:Park, 184 acres in extent, was opened in 1882. Northward extend the broken fragments of See also:Epping See also:Forest. Wanstead Flats, adjoining the Park, See also:form another open ground. At See also:Lake See also:House See also:Thomas See also:Hood wrote the novel Tylney See also:Hall. At Snaresbrook in the See also:parish of Wanstead are the See also:Infant See also:Orphan See also:Asylum, founded in 1827, and the Royal See also:Merchant See also:Seamen's Orphan Asylum, established in London in 1817 and refounded here in 1861. In Snaresbrook is See also:Eagle See also:Pond or Lake, 1o4 acres in extent. Wanstead is mentioned in Domesday, and the name is considered by some to be derived from See also:Woden's See also:stead or See also:place, indicating a spot dedicated to the See also:worship of Woden. It be-longed before the See also:time of See also:Edward the See also:Confessor to the monks of St See also:Peter's, See also:Westminster, and afterwards to the See also:bishop of London, of whom it was held at the time of the Domesday Survey by See also:Ralph Fitz Brien.

In the reign of See also:

Henry VIII. it came into the See also:possession of the See also:crown, and in 1549 it was bestowed by Edward VI. on See also:Lord See also:Rich, whose son sold it in 1577 to See also:Robert See also:Dudley, See also:earl of See also:Leicester. The See also:original See also:manor house was rebuilt by Lord See also:Chancellor Rich, who was here visited by See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth in 1561, and for her entertainment See also:Sir See also:Philip See also:Sidney wrote a dramatic interlude which was played before the queen at Wanstead See also:garden, and is printed at the end of the See also:Arcadia. Sir See also:Richard See also:Child, afterwards earl of Tylney, built the splendid See also:mansion of Wanstead House in 1715 (demolished in 1822), in which the See also:prince of See also:Conde and others of the See also:Bourbon See also:family resided during the reign of the first See also:Napoleon.

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