LEYTON, Low, a village in the hundred of Becontree, in the county of Essex, six miles from London, on the border of Epping Forest. It is chiefly filled with houses used as country-seats by the richer traders of the metropolis, and is supposed to have been a Roman station under the name of Durolitum. The population amounted in 1801 to 2519, in 1811 to 3162, in 1821 to 3374, and in 1831 to 3223.