Mesa Mesa Mesa (Spanish and Portuguese for "table") is the American English term for tableland, an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs. It takes its name from its characteristic table-top shape. It may also be called a table hill, table-topped hill or table mountain. It is larger than a butte, which it otherwise resembles closely. It is a characteristic landform of arid environments, particularly the Western and Southwestern United States in badlands and mountainous regions ranging from Washington and California to the Dakotas, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, and Texas. Examples are also found
Epping Upland site, which dates to the 16th century ("Pevsner": early 17th), with 18th-century alterations. It contains an "elaborately carved" chimney piece and, in an upper room, 17th-century brown and black wall paintings in floral style on plasterwork. On 8 September 1944, during the Second World War, the first German V-2 rocket to be launched landed at Epping Upland. The local primary school is Epping Upland C of E Primary School. Epping Upland has bus services to Epping and Harlow. Epping Upland civil parish stretches from the southern outskirts of Harlow in the north to the M25 motorway in the south, a