page_title: Green Street, Newham
section_title: Origins and context
hierarchical_section_title: Green Street, Newham / Origins and context
caption_attribution_description: A grand pub building near the Boleyn Ground (football ground for West Ham United - behind) on the corner of Green Street and Barking Road. 1, Barking Rd, London Borough of Newham, E6 1PW Former Name: The Boleyn Tavern.
context_page_description: Green Street is a road in the London Borough of Newham, East London, which forms much of the boundary between East and West Ham and ends in the Forest Gate area of Stratford.
  Green Street is best known for the former Boleyn Ground, home to West Ham United from 1904–2016 and its wide range of shops and market outlets. It was also the site of Green Street House - also known as Boleyn Castle - for more than 400 years until demolished in 1955. Green Street House was located between the street and the Boleyn Ground.
  Green Street runs from the originally Roman Romford Road, in the north, to the Barking Road in the south. The northern part, near the Romford Road was at one time also known as Gypsy Lane as it was often used by gypsies. The junction with Barking Road, by the Boleyn Tavern, was known as Morley's Corner after the onetime owners of Green Street House.
  Morley's Corner is the site of the Champions statue commemorating West Ham's players who helped win the 1966 World Cup: Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters.
context_section_description: The first surviving record of the street is from the 15th century, but it is significantly older. The street was chosen as the boundary of East and West Ham when the territory of Ham was subdivided, sometime in the 12th century, so, therefore, pre-dates that partition. Many south Essex field patterns and associated roads date from the late Iron Age and early Roman period and the same may apply to Green Street.   
  On partition, Green Street came to form the most significant part of the boundary between East and West Ham with the boundary also extending to the north through a part of what was then Epping Forest and it also extended south through the marshes to the Thames.
  Romford Road was long the southern limit of Epping Forest with a part called Hamfrith Wood lying just north of the junction with Green Street until 1700. The area south of Barking Road was largely part of the wide floodplain of the Thames. The area urbanised in the 19th century.  
  The north part of Green Street is in the informally defined district called Forest Gate which includes parts of both East and West Ham; in a similar way, southern Green Street is part of the Upton Park district which also includes parts of East and West Ham.
caption: The Boleyn Tavern on the corner of Green St and Barking Road
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