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| | EoLFHS Parishes: Wanstead |
 | | Population 5119, but this includes the hamlet of Snaresbrook, and 647 persons in the infant Orphan Asylum, 209 in the Merchant Seamen's Orphanage, and 74 in Woodhouse Asylum. |
 | | On the west of Wanstead Park, divided from it by the road to Snaresbrook, remains what looks like a wild bit of the Forest, but having avenues across it, the chief nearly a mile long -no doubt relies of the old avenues of Sir Josiah Child's planting. |
 | | The larger avenue, known as The Avenue, is a favourite resort of East-end holiday-makers and school parties, who come here during the summer months in vans and other vehicles in prodigious numbers, and amuse themselves with swings, donkey and pony races, and a variety of sports. |
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