Toot Hill is a village in the Stanford Rivers civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.
The Toot Hill Country Show[1] (held a short distance away at Stanford Rivers) has taken place each year since 1953.
[2] 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.
Blake Hall station, important when it was opened principally as a goods yard for transporting agricultural produce from the nearby farms into London.
[4] The railway stations at North Weald and Blake Hall were opened when the line to Chipping Ongar was completed in 1865.
[2] The land in the village varies in height from about 100 ft. above sea-level in the south to over 300 ft. at Toot Hill in the north-west.
Toot Hill is represented at Westminster by Alex Burghart, MP for Brentwood and Ongar.
Toot Hill is represented on the Essex County Council under the Ongar & Rural division of the Epping Forest district.
In the 2017 county council elections the Conservative candidate won the division seat with 68.2% of the vote, followed by the Liberal Democrats with 12.6%.
The village of Toot Hill is governed locally by the Stanford Rivers Parish Council, a group of seven parish councilors representing Toot Hill, Clatterford End, Stanford Rivers and Little End.
[7] Toot Hill's disused phone box has been transformed into an information kiosk with leaflets on attractions in Essex and London, telephone numbers and a map of the local area.
The Toot Hill Country Show takes place each year on the first Saturday in August.