Snaresbrook

Snaresbrook
Eagle Pond and Snaresbrook Crown Court
Snaresbrook Location within Greater London
Population	11,868 (2011 Census.Ward)[1]
OS grid reference	TQ395895
London borough	Redbridge Waltham Forest
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	E11
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
UK Parliament	Leyton & Wanstead
London Assembly	Havering and Redbridge North East
List of places UK England London 51°35′13″N 0°00′52″E / 51.587027°N 0.014563°E / 51.587027; 0.014563

Snaresbrook is a district in the London Borough of Redbridge, in East London. It is located eight miles (13 kilometres) east of Charing Cross.

The name derives from a corruption of Sayers brook, a tributary of the River Roding that flows through Wanstead to the East.

Snaresbrook is bounded approximately by South Woodford to the north, the lower reaches of Epping Forest and Upper Leytonstone, Leyton and Walthamstow to the west, Leytonstone to the south and Wanstead to the east. Snaresbrook Ward in the London Borough of Redbridge covers most of Wanstead High Street. The ward forms part of the 2007 parliamentary boundary changes and is currently entirely within the parliamentary constituency of Leyton and Wanstead (UK Parliament constituency).

Snaresbrook's most notable building is Snaresbrook Crown Court. It was opened in 1843 as the Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum by King Leopold I of Belgium, and later became the Royal Wanstead School. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt.