LOUGHTON  , an

urban district in the Epping parliamentary division of Essex, England, 111 m . N.N.E. of Liverpool Street station, London, by the Great Eastern railway . Pop . (1901), 4730 . This is one of the villages which has become the centre of a residential district, and is frequented by holiday-makers from London, owing to its proximity to the pleasant woodland scenery of Epping Forest . It lies on the eastern outskirts of the Forest, near the river Roding . There are several modern churches . The lordship of the manor was granted to Waltham Abbey . In the vicinity are large earthworks, probably of British origin, known as Loughton Camp .