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Chase Cross, Romford — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Chase Cross is a district of the London Borough of Havering, named for a crossroads in the old Hainault Forest chase north of Romford.
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Where to stay in Chase Cross
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Beds cluster in Romford, not here. Chase Cross is housing laid over the cleared chase, thin on formal rooms, so the practical base is the middle of Romford a short way south or the streets around Collier Row just west. Charing Cross is fifteen miles off, which settles most itineraries.
About Chase Cross
What are the main landmarks in Chase Cross?
Chase Cross counts three churches, two houses. Bower House and The Round House are the two houses recorded around here, while the Church of St John the Evangelist takes its name from Havering-atte-Bower, another corner of the same borough. The Ascension serves Collier Row, the district immediately west, and St James stands as the other parish church within reach.
What is the history of Chase Cross?
The name records a crossing. Chase Cross is thought to take it from the point where roads met within the chase of Hainault Forest, the woodland that covered this ground before the fields arrived. Clearance for agriculture followed in the 1850s, and that farmland gave way in turn to housing through the 1930s, which is the fabric the streets still carry.
Where is Chase Cross?
Chase Cross sits east of Collier Row and a short way north of Romford, on outer London ground that Hainault Forest once covered.
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Updated September 2026