# Matching Green

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Village in Essex, England

Human settlement in England

Matching Green The Chequers public house Matching Green Location within Essex Population 636 [1] Civil parish Matching District Epping Forest Shire county Essex Region East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town HARLOW Postcode district CM17 Dialling code 01279 Police Essex Fire Essex Ambulance East of England UK Parliament Brentwood and Ongar List of places UK England Essex 51°46′37″N 0°13′30″E / 51.777°N 0.225°E / 51.777; 0.225

**Matching Green** is a village and the largest settlement in the civil parish of [Matching](/source/Matching%2C_Essex), in [Essex](/source/Essex), England. It is 3.0 miles (4.8 km) east of [Harlow](/source/Harlow), 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north-west of [Chipping Ongar](/source/Chipping_Ongar) and 3.9 miles (6.3 km) south-east of [Sawbridgeworth](/source/Sawbridgeworth).

Village green cricket and 'The Limes', Grade II listed, at Matching Green

Matching Green has one of the largest [village greens](/source/Village_green) in Essex. The green is almost triangular in shape, covers 5.6 hectares (13.8 acres), contains the local cricket field, and is edged by mainly detached cottages and houses dating from the 14th to 19th century, twenty-eight of which are listed buildings. The village public house is The Chequers at the western edge of the green.

The site of the former [RAF Matching](/source/RAF_Matching) lies to the east of village.

## Matching parish settlements

- Carter's Green

- [Housham Tye](/source/Housham_Tye)

- [Matching](/source/Matching%2C_Essex)

- **Matching Green**

- [Matching Tye](/source/Matching_Tye)

- [Newman's End](/source/Newman's_End)

## Transport

### Bus

Route Number Route Operational Details 47 Harlow to Moreton via Matching Green Tue-Sat (1 return journey) 147 Harlow to Ongar via Matching Green Wed Only (1 return journey)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Parish Profile : Matching](http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/council_services/planning/census/matching.asp) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20041113181434/http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/Council_Services/planning/census/Matching.asp) 2004-11-13 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine). Epping Forest District Council.

## External links

- Media related to [Matching Green](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Matching_Green) at Wikimedia Commons

- [Matching Green Local History](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63853)

- [Matching Parish Council](https://web.archive.org/web/20081118011954/http://matchingcouncil.org.uk/index.php)

- [Matching Green Cricket Club](http://mgcc.hitscricket.com/default.aspx)

- [Matching Green Primary School](http://www.matchinggreenprimaryschool.com/)

[Portals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals):
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- [United Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:United_Kingdom)

v t e Epping Forest District Parishes Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding Bobbingworth Buckhurst Hill Chigwell Epping Epping Upland Fyfield High Laver and Little Laver High Ongar Lambourne Loughton Magdalen Laver Matching Moreton Nazeing North Weald Bassett Ongar Roydon Sheering Stanford Rivers Stapleford Abbotts Stapleford Tawney Theydon Bois Theydon Garnon Theydon Mount Waltham Abbey Willingale Other notable settlements Abridge Chipping Ongar Clatterford End Colliers Hatch Epping Green Fiddlers Hamlet Foster Street Greensted Hastingwood Housham Tye Lower Sheering Marden Ash Matching Green Matching Tye Newman's End Shelley Tawney Common Threshers Bush Thornwood Toot Hill Attractions Epping Forest (woodland) Epping Ongar Railway Greensted Church North Weald Airfield Constituencies Epping Forest Brentwood and Ongar

v t e Ceremonial county of Essex Unitary authorities Southend-on-Sea Thurrock Boroughs or districts Basildon Braintree Brentwood Castle Point Chelmsford Colchester Epping Forest Harlow Maldon Rochford Tendring Uttlesford Major settlements (cities in italics) Aveley Basildon Billericay Braintree Brentwood Brightlingsea Buckhurst Hill Burnham-on-Crouch Canvey Island Chadwell St Mary Chelmsford Chigwell Chipping Ongar Clacton-on-Sea Coggeshall Colchester Corringham Dovercourt Epping Frinton-on-Sea Grays Great Dunmow Hadleigh Halstead Harlow Harwich Hockley Leigh-on-Sea Loughton Maldon Manningtree Pitsea Purfleet Rayleigh Rochford Saffron Walden Shoeburyness South Benfleet South Ockendon Southend-on-Sea South Woodham Ferrers Stanford-le-Hope Stansted Mountfitchet Thaxted Thundersley Tilbury Tiptree Waltham Abbey Walton-on-the-Naze West Mersea West Thurrock Wickford Witham Wivenhoe See also: List of civil parishes in Essex Rivers Blackwater Brain Cam Can Chelmer Ching Cobbins Brook Colne Crouch River Lea River Lee Flood Relief Channel Mardyke Pincey Brook Prittle Brook Roach Roding Roman Stort Stour Stour Brook Ter Category

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