Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Epping Forest · Region: Eastern
Explore Thornwood Common, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Thornwood Common map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Thornwood Common |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Epping Forest |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.721242 |
| Longitude | 0.128605 |
| Place Type | Village |
Thornwood Common stretches across the Essex landscape, defined by a linear sprawl that follows the ancient pulse of the road towards the north. It lies 1.8 miles north-north-east of Epping (from Epping: bearing 26°T, OS grid TL 471 046), and is situated north-north-west of Coopersale village. The horizon here is wide and unencumbered, where the pale, thin light of the Eastern region catches the damp fields and makes the hedgerows appear as dark, ink-drawn lines against the sky. A short distance to the southeast, the moated site known as Marshalls remains a quiet, sunken relic of a deeper past, holding its silence beneath a blanket of overgrown foliage. Thornwood Common maintains a pragmatic character, grounded in the steady transit of modern life that moves through its thoroughfare with little regard for the ghosts of the surrounding meadows. The earth holds the memory of older, agrarian rhythms, though the modern hum of the motorway now dictates the local tempo. To the north-north-west, the ruins of Latton Priory stand as a skeletal sentinel, a fragment of stone that still commands the gentle rise of the land. Each morning, the air in Thornwood Common carries the crisp, sharp scent of damp soil and exhaust, a meeting of the ancient field and the perpetual motion of the road.
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Explore Thornwood Common, Essex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.721242, 0.128605. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |