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Leytonstone history
Origins and Roman milestone
Leytonstone High Road is part of an ancient highway from Epping to London. The main thoroughfare is the High Stone, a restored 18th-century obelisk set up on an earlier stump. Other Roman archaeological features have been found in nearly by Leyton, including a Roman cemetery south of Blind Lane.
18th and 19th century
Leytonstone was largely rural until the opening of the railway in 1856. The Epping Forest Act 1878 preserved more than 200 acres of open space for public use. In 1898 the department store Bearmans was the first store outside central London with an escalator.
20th century
In the mid-1990s, the M11 link road (A12) was built through the area, despite a long-running protest by locals and protestors. This and other protests led to the policy, Roads for Prosperity, being abandoned. From 2001 to 2013, artists ran the 491 Gallery, a squatted social space in a building next the A12.
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