About High Beach and Holy Innocents Church
High Beach, also called High Beech, is a popular part of Epping Forest.
The area near the King's Oak pub commands views across the Lee Valley while the green tea bar near the main road to Epping is popular with motorcyclists, forest walkers and horse riders.
The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson lived at nearby Beech Hill Park between 1837 and 1840. Journalist and novelist Arthur Morrison ('the English Zola') lived in the area and is buried in present High Beach churchyard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Morrison
and
www.londonfictions.com/arthur-morrison-a-child-of-the-jag...
The ground behind the King's Oak pub was the site of Britain's first official motorcycle speedway meeting on February 19, 1928 and was the scene of speedway's 80th birthday celebrations in 2008.
The current parish church is the magnificent Church of the Holy Innocents built in 1873 by Thomas Baring of Baring Brothers Bank to replace the earlier church (St Paul's) which was on another site in Church Road.
This earlier church needed repairs and was suffering vandalism caused by day trippers from London. It was finally demolished in 1885. It was in this earlier churchyard that Tennyson partly wrote 'In Memoriam AHH' following the death of his friend Arthur Hallam.
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