LEYTON  , an

urban district forming one of the north-eastern suburbs of London . England, in the Walthamstow (S.W.) parliamentary division of Essex . Pop . (1891) 63,106; (19o1) 98,912 . It lies on the east (left) bank of the Lea, along the flat open valley of which runs the boundary between Essex and the county of London . The church of St Mary, mainly a brick reconstruction, contains several interesting memorials; including one to William Bowyer the printer (d . 1737), erected by his son and namesake, more famous in the same trade . Here is also buried John Strype the historian and biographer (d . 1737), who held the position of curate and lecturer at this church . Leyton is in the main a residential as distinct from a manufacturing locality . Its name is properly Low Leyton, and the parish includes the district of Leytonstone to the east . Roman remains have been discovered here, but no identification with a Roman station by name has been made with certainty .

The ground of the Essex County

Cricket Club is at Leyton .