Historically having Chingford as part of Epping in South-West Essex, the constituency existed from February 1974 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.
Both of its former Members of Parliament are well known, being Norman Tebbit and Iain Duncan Smith.
1983–1997: The London Borough of Waltham Forest wards of Chapel End, Chingford Green, Endlebury, Hale End, Hatch Lane, Larkswood, and Valley.
The seat was created out of the old Epping and Walthamstow East constituencies, and no part of it was ever in the post-1965 administrative county of Essex.
It was replaced in 1997 by the new Chingford and Woodford Green constituency.