The Greenwich Meridian
…where east meets west
| Location | England LB Waltham Forest Walthamstow (E17) |
| S side of: Forest Road, E17 (Hagger Bridge) | |
| Distance (N) from Greenwich | |
| OS map details | OS Explorer: 174 |
| OS grid ref | TQ 38537.90059 (538537,190059) |
| WGS84 lat/long | 51.592354, -0.001474 |
| Type | Pavement (slab) |
| Marking date | 1963 |
| Access | Unrestricted |
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One of four slabs laid in 1963 in what is now the former Borough of Walthamstow. The idea of marking the Meridian came from Council Leader Alderman Ross Wyld, who recalled his father having told him that it ran through the school that had once existed in Ragland Road. The London Borough of Waltham Forest was formed two years later in 1965 by amalgamating the three boroughs of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow. To even things out, four identical slabs were laid in the other two former boroughs in 1984.