Blake Hall is a disused former station on the London Underground in the civil parish of Stanford Rivers, and south from the village of Bobbingworth in Essex.
[1][2] It was opened in 1865 and named after Blake Hall, a country house located a mile or so to the northeast and inhabited by the Capel-Cure family of substantial local land-owners.
Blake Hall station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 24 April 1865,[3] serving principally as a goods yard carrying agricultural produce from the nearby farms into London.
[6] Blake Hall became reputed as the least-used station on the entire Underground network [citation needed].
Fare subsidies provided on the rest of the system were not provided on this part of the line because local government agencies for Essex and London failed to agree on their respective public transport responsibilities, and Blake Hall station was located a considerable distance from any substantial settlement.