Ongar: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Ongar or Chipping Ongar is a town in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.

The town was best known for Ongar tube station, the most north easterly on the London Underground until its closure in 1994. There are plans to reopen the line to Epping as the Epping - Ongar railway.

Ongar was an important market town in the Mediaeval period, lying at the centre of a hundred and once possessing a Norman castle. Ongar church is noted for its reused Roman bricks.