Toot Hill is a village in the Stanford Rivers civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. It is south-west of Chipping Ongar and east of Epping. Toot Hill is less than a mile from the small hamlet of Clatterford End. The Toot Hill Country Show (held a short distance away at Stanford Rivers) has taken place each year since 1953. History Toot Hill may originally have been part of the parish of High Ongar, and may have become part of Stanford Rivers about 1280. Like many other towns in this area Toot Hill is made up mainly of scattered farms and cottages. Does Farm here is of late 16th-century origin, faced with brickwork in the 19th century. Also at Toot Hill is a small cottage with one gabled cross-wing which may be of the 16th century or earlier. In or before 1863 a sub-post office was established at Toot Hill. By the 1950s the post office operated inside a village shop, selling basic groceries and newspapers, which were also delivered to customers' homes in Toot Hill and the surrounding hamlets, by the shopkeeper. There was a windmill at Toot Hill in the 19th century. It was built about 1824. In 1829 it was badly damaged by lightning and the miller was seriously injured. The mill was soon working again and continued to operate until about 1900. It was finally demolished in 1935. It was a wooden post-mill turned by hand. The mill stood on the north side of the road leading to Greensted Green. The railway from Epping to Chipping Ongar passes less than 1 mile beyond the north of the village. Blake Hall station, important when it was opened principally as a goods yard for transporting agricultural produce from the nearby farms into London. was the closest to Toot Hill, but the goods yard was closed in 1966 and the station was closed to passengers in 1981 (and sold subsequently for residential use). The railway stations at North Weald and Blake Hall were opened when the line to Chipping Ongar was completed in 1865. In 1921 a village parish room was established to accommodate meetings and events. After 1945, council houses were gradually built in Toot Hill, particularly the areas on both sides of the Green Man public house. Electricity was supplied in part to the village in early 1951. Geography The land in the village