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'Three miles from busy Romford we shall find Havering-atte-Bower, which owns a pretty church. Havering signifies "the settlement of the people of Haefer", and "Bower" seems always to mean that a King had chosen the place for his recreation. Edward the Confessor is said to have had a palace here.
Clifford Bax, Highways and Byways in Essex, page 129