Talk:Debden, Epping Forest

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Have removed the assertion that Debden's telephone code is '020 85' - this is innaccurate.

[edit] Moved from article

I moved the following comments from the article: Mrsteviec 19:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I wish to inform all website visitors that there is no such place as Debden in or near Loughton.

Yes there is a London Underground Station in the north of Loughton named Debden but that I am afraid is it! There is no postal address or code for this made up address and Royal Mail has many times officially told people NOT to put the place name “Debden” on letters when posting to this area.

This is why it is not shown on any maps, as simply there is no such place. Such an informative website should not have pages with made up information on.

No one locally knows why and how the name Debden came about. The only thing people can come up with is when people from London moved to the area, they misunderstood that Debden was just a station name. If the station hadn’t changed its name these people may well of thought that the area was named Chigwell Lane.

"Debden is not recognized on most roadmaps" This is because there is no such place! It's all Loughton, that's why the whole of Loughton North & South have the same address, post code & dialling code.

I don't think its been implied anywhere that Debden is the correct part of any postal address. In fact there is an infobox in the article which shows the post town is Loughton. Besides this, postal addresses have nothing to do with if a place exists or not. If they did then only about 1,500 towns in the UK would "exist". Mrsteviec 19:52, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I lived in Loughton many years ago, and remember problems where mail that was incorrectly addressed "Debden" ended up at the place whose real name is Debden. If Debden is the name of a part of Loughton, then it would be possible to define a boundary - I would say that that is impossible to do. "Debden" used to loosely refer to the housing estate constructed after WW2 by the London County Council to re-house people displaced from bomb damaged areas in London, but with the passage of time, demolition of areas of prefabs, construction of private housing etc, it would no longer be possible to define a complete boundary based on that criterion. Also "The Broadway" is often wrongly referred to as "Debden Broadway", and that has led to shops referring (where they also have a branch in Loughton High Road) to premises there as their "Debden branch". (82.29.215.250 14:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC))