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The lane takes its name from the former 16thCentury Luxborough Manor, built by John Stoner, who died in 1579. The manor itself probably derived its name from the Loughteborough family who lived in Chigwell in the 14thCentury. William de Loughte-borough is mentioned in records of 1316, over a messuage and 132 acres of land in Chigwell. He featured again in a Forest Roll of 1324. The family were still in the area at the end of the 14thCentury as Robert de Loughte-borough is mentioned in records from 1390. In 1559 Stoner bought the manor of Loughbroughes and built himself a house there. Sometime around 1716 — 1720 it was in the hands of Robert Knight who rebuilt it as a large mansion. This house, which since 1799 had been incorporated into the Chigwell Hall estate, was demolished in about 1800. Luxborough Lane appears unnamed on Chapman and Andre’s 1777 map of Essex, marking the periphery of the estate, also bordered by the High Road, south and the River Roding, east. By the time the 1898 Ordnance Survey map was published its name had been applied.
