Gidea Hall was a manor house in Gidea Park, the historic parish and Royal liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, whose former area today is part of the north-eastern extremity of Greater London.
Gidea Hall in 1908
Image: Gidea Hall, 1797 from an engraving made by Humphrey Repton
Gidea Park is a neighbourhood in the east of Romford in the London Borough of Havering, south-east England. Predominantly an affluent and residential area, it was historically located in the county of Essex. It saw significant expansion in the early 20th century, with exhibitions of housing and town planning and the construction of a railway station on the main line out from London Liverpool Street station.
The lake at Raphael Park in Gidea Park
The former Balgores House, dating from the 1850s, is today a preparatory school
Exhibition houses on Parkway, overlooking Raphael park
Each property had a drawing and description published in The Book of the Exhibition of Houses and Cottages, 1911