Wake Arms, Epping Road, Upshire

Wake Arms, Epping Road, Upshire 1891

This photo was printed in the Essex Countryside magazine in July 1966 with the a letter stating that it was taken in 1891 and shows a meeting of a local naturalist society who roamed Epping Forest. The meeting is taking place in a pub which the letter writer, Mrs TH Turner believed to be the Wake Arms. Mrs Turner's father, William Alder is the back row, and his son, a keen photographer may have taken the picture.

Wake Arms, Epping Forest - A B Davis Ltd, Epping & Loughton

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Interesting letters in the Essex Countryside magazine

state that the pub name is believed to have derived from the Wake family which claims descent from Hereward Leofricson, Lord of Bourne, commonly known as Hereward the Wake - the Wake meaning last of the Saxons. The Wakes were a well known Essex landowning family and ownership of this manor descended to Sire William Wake in 1755.

The pub was rebuilt in about 1932, until then, a massive sign on the opposite side of the Epping Road bore on both sides a heraldic representation of the Wake family Arms. One account tells how the Wake family used to block up he natural springs used to by picnickers at High Beech in order to 'encourage' the use of their pub until the authorities stepped in and banned the practice. Writing in 1887, Miller Christy the pub sign historian stated that the Wake Arms was over 40 years old in 1887.

Wake Arms, Epping Road, Upshire 1960's

It was one of a number of pubs in and around Epping Forest with associations with Dick Turpin, the Highwayman. The pub had items of Turpin's clothing on display for some years - presumably because Turpin stayed there prior to being caught and left them there?

1960's

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