Talk:Leytonstone

Notable residents
Many notable residents do not reside there at all. Most were born or grew up there but moved away. Some (like Afred Hitchcock) are deceased. The heading should perhaps be renamed Notable Leytonstonians?Phase4 22:45, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Lifestyle section
Do we need an unsourced lifestyle section? It is well written but there aren't that many facts and some of those facts are not true. To add such a commentary section definitely needs citations. MLA (talk) 12:13, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It's not particularly useful. Descriptions should be purely factual and cited. There are precious few locations without a Tescos these days, so not having one would be more notable! Kbthompson (talk) 14:24, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd also question the need for the long, uncited, list of people associated with Leytonstone. Some of them live in the area, some of them grew up there, some were born in Whipps Cross Hospital but have no other link to the area, some... who knows. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 13:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Suburban?
The first line of the article defines the area as suburban, but I think it would more accurately be described as urban, due to the fact that the area is very overcrowded, and there is no break in the built-up area between it and central London, via Stratford. Areas such as Chingford and Romford are suburban, it seems strange to categorise this very densely populated area in the same way. Nietzsche 2 (talk) 16:16, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Last time I checked there was no countryside between Chingford or Romford and Central London as well. Leytonstone (like Leyton) is definitely not the inner-city unlike places like Hackney or Mile End or even Stratford. Justgravy (talk) 20:58, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Photograph of Leytonstone High Road 1950
I was born in Leytonstone and lived there until 1959 and can assure that trams ceased to run down Leytonstone High Road in the 1930's as I do not remember them at all. There was just a small section of track remaining in the 1940's just off the Green Man roundabout in the Whipps Cross Road. In the 1950's the 661 Trolley Bus replaced the tram. This ran from Leytonstone to Aldgate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.233.45.63 (talk) 19:12, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I think there is a general confusion between trams and trolley buses, as they both ran on wires. Thank you for the clarification. 212.132.221.134 (talk) 10:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Transport section out of date
Transport section has two references to things that were to be completed in 2018. Were they completed?

"This line was recently prepared for electrification ready for the introduction, by the end of 2018, of new longer trains offering an additional 30 per cent capacity."

"At the southern end of Leytonstone lies Maryland station – soon to be a Crossrail station, with works to prepare the station for Elizabeth Line services set to complete in summer 2018."

Thisisnotatest (talk) 22:29, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Hollow Pond vs Hollow Ponds
Just a note to confirm that the official name is Hollow Pond and that while it is called Hollow Ponds (plural) by many locals, the article should use the official name Jonnyspeed20 (talk) 07:29, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Historic Country of Essex
There have been a number of conversations about whether many places are currently part of Historic County of Essex. Leytonstone is in Waltham Forest which is part of East London with Greater London. All references to historic/former counties, especially of Essex, is relevant in the context of the original parish / hundred. The current conclusion is that this information can stay in the lede, though not the first sentence. Continued disruptive edits will result in moving to Dispute Resolution. Please feel free to discuss at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_geography Jonnyspeed20 (talk) 06:35, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Area? Suburb? Town?
Let's see if we can reach some conclusions about how to describe this. At the moment the lede describes Leytonstone as a "town", with an ongoing edit war about whether to add the adjective "suburban". Personally, as a resident of Leytonstone, calling it a town seems ridiculous. Nobody who lives here would call it such, and I've found no evidence looking at old newspapers that it was ever described as such. Before becoming part of London it was at best a village, and more just a hamlet in the parish of Leyton. Personally I would just use "area" (with or without "suburban") but I'd be interested in other views. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 15:17, 4 October 2021 (UTC)