"Waltham Forest" redirects here. For the historic royal forest, see Waltham Forest (legal forest).
London borough in United Kingdom
London Borough of Waltham Forest
London borough
Coat of arms
Council logo
Motto:
Fellowship is Life
Waltham Forest shown within Greater London
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Constituent country
England
Region
London
Ceremonial county
Greater London
Created
1 April 1965
Admin HQ
Walthamstow
Government
• Type
London borough council
• Body
Waltham Forest London Borough Council
• Leadership
Leader (Grace Williams) & Cabinet (Labour)
• Mayor
Cllr Elizabeth Baptiste[1]
• London Assembly
Sem Moema (Labour) AM for North East
• MPs
John Cryer (Labour) Stella Creasy (Labour) Iain Duncan Smith (Con)
Area
• Total
14.99 sq mi (38.82 km2)
• Rank
265th (of 296)
Population
(2022)
• Total
275,887
• Rank
61st (of 296)
• Density
18,000/sq mi (7,100/km2)
Time zone
UTC (GMT)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+1 (BST)
Postcodes
E, IG
Area code
020
ONS code
00BH
GSS code
E09000031
Police
Metropolitan Police
Website
https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/
The London Borough of Waltham Forest (/ˈwɔːlθəm/)[2] is an outer London borough formed in 1965 from the merger of the municipal boroughs of Leyton, Walthamstow and Chingford.
The borough's administrative headquarters are at Waltham Forest Town Hall, which before the merger of the boroughs, was called Walthamstow Town Hall. The population was 278,428 at the 2021 census. Waltham Forest borders five other London boroughs: Enfield to the north-west, Haringey to the west, Hackney to the south-west, Newham to the south-east and Redbridge to the east, as well as the non-metropolitan county of Essex to the north.
The borough takes its name from the former Waltham Forest – an institution which managed deer in south-west Essex. Epping Forest is a remainder of the former Waltham Forest and forms the eastern and northern fringe of the borough. The River Lea lies to the west where its associated marshes and parkland form a green corridor which, along the reservoir-lined reaches, separates north and east London, and is the historic border between Middlesex and Essex.
Waltham Forest was one of the host boroughs of the London Olympics in 2012, with the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre and part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park providing an ongoing legacy in the UK and London.
^"The Mayor". London Borough of Waltham Forest. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
^"Waltham Forest definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary". www.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
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