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Ongar (hundred)
Hundred of Ongar was an ancient hundred (country subdivision), hundred in the west of the county of Essex, England. Hundred of Ongar was centred on the town of Chipping Ongar. Hundred of Ongar contained the following parishes: ''A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar Hundred'' (1956). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=53. Date accessed: 14 September 2007 *Abbess Roding *Beauchamp Roding *Berners Roding *Bobbingworth or Bovinger *Chigwell *Chipping Ongar *Fyfield, Essex , Fyfield *Greensted-juxta-Ongar *High Laver *High Ongar *Kelvedon Hatch *Lambourne *Little Laver *Loughton *Magdalen Laver *Moreton, Essex , Moreton *Navestock *North Weald Bassett *Norton Mandeville *Shelley, Essex , Shelley *Stanford Rivers *Stapleford Abbotts *Stapleford Tawney *Stondon Massey *Theydon Bois *Theydon Garnon *Theydon Mount See also *Hundreds of Essex References External linksThe Hundred of Ongar Hundreds of Essex {{Essex-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred (country Subdivision)
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, Curonia, the Ukrainian state of the Cossack Hetmanate and in Cumberland County in the British Colony of New South Wales. It is still used in other places, including in Australia (in South Australia and the Northern Territory). Other terms for the hundred in English and other languages include ''wapentake'', ''herred'' (Danish and Bokmål Norwegian), ''herad'' ( Nynorsk Norwegian), ''hérað'' (Icelandic), ''härad'' or ''hundare'' (Swedish), ''Harde'' (German), ''hiird'' ( North Frisian), ''satakunta'' or ''kihlakunta'' (Finnish), ''kihelkond'' (Estonian), ''kiligunda'' (Livonian), ''cantref'' (Welsh) and ''sotnia'' (Slavic). In Ireland, a similar subdivision of counties is referred to as a barony, and a hundred is a subdivision of a part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loughton
Loughton () is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex. Part of the metropolitan and urban area of London, the town borders Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill, and is northeast of Charing Cross. The parish of Loughton covers part of Epping Forest, in 1996 some parts of the south of the old parish were transferred to Buckhurst Hill parish, and other small portions to Chigwell and Theydon Bois. It is the most populous civil parish in the Epping Forest district, and within Essex it is the second most populous civil parish (after Canvey Island) and the second largest in the area. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 33,353. Loughton has three conservation areas and there are 56 listed buildings in the town, together with a further 50 that are locally listed. History The earliest structure in Loughton is Loughton Camp, an Iron Age earth fort in Epping Forest dating from around 500 BC. Hidden by dense undergrowth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theydon Mount
Theydon Mount is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex, England. The village is notable for the Grade I listed Elizabethan mansion, Hill Hall. History The name "Theydon" is thought to mean 'valley where thatch (material) grows'. The word "Mount" derives from the hill on which it is located. Theydon Mount has been called ''Theydon Paulyn'', ''Theydon Lessington'', and ''Theydon Briwes'' in the past. The names from the former lords of the manor. The name Thoydon Mount has also been used. Theydon Bois, Garnon and Mount were recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' as 'Taindena' and 'Teidana'. Geography Theydon Mount is close to the M25 motorway. The parish, which includes the hamlet of Mount End, has an area of 632 hectares and a population of 163 people. Nearby settlements include the town of Epping, the villages of Theydon Bois, Stapleford Tawney, Theydon Garnon, the hamlets of Hobbs Cross, Passingford Bridge, Mount End and Fiddlers Hamlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theydon Garnon
Theydon Garnon is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district, in the county of Essex, England. The parish also includes the hamlet of Hobbs Cross. History Also recorded as Thoydon Garnon and Coopersale, "Theydon" is thought to mean 'valley where thatch (material) grows' and "Garnon" derives from the Gernon family. A weekly market and annual fair was granted to Theydon Garnon in 1305. A workhouse operated in the parish from around 1704. By 1851 the parish's population had reached 1,237. Epping Union Workhouse was in Theydon Garnon; it and Epping station also opened within the parish in 1865, but was included in the newly formed Epping Urban District in 1896, along with the village of Coopersale and the hamlets of Coopersale Street, and Fiddler's Hamlet. The reduction in the parish's size led to a reduction in population, down to 317 in 1901. Amenities The village contains an Anglican parish church, dating back to the 13th Century and dedicated to All Saints. A p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stondon Massey
Stondon Massey is a village and civil parish in the Brentwood district of Essex, England. The village is to the north of Brentwood, between Blackmore and Doddinghurst. Stondon Massey hosts an annual fete on the village green. In 2006 the village was named Winner of Group 4 Best Kept Village in Essex competition. Etymology and history Stondon means "stone hill", a Saxon settlement was established near to the site of the 12th-century church of St Peter's & St Paul's, where William Byrd, the Tudor composer is likely to be buried. A low gravel hill was known as a ‘down’. Hence the name Stondon. Massey is derived from the surname of Serlo de Marcy, a Norman knight who lived in Marks Hall, Margaret Roding. There have been three successive manor houses, the oldest of which is Stondon Hall, near the church. The north wing of the Hall is probably of the 15th century, and there is some 16th- and 17th-century panelling inside. Stondon Place, originally a farmhouse, was rebuilt abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stapleford Tawney
Stapleford Tawney is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. Stapleford Tawney is approximately west-southwest from Chipping Ongar and southwest from the county town of Chelmsford. History Historically Stapleford Tawney was included in the hundred of Ongar. It formed part of the Ongar Rural District Council from 1894 until that authority was absorbed into Epping and Ongar Rural District Council in 1955. Following local government reorganisation in 1974 it became part of Epping Forest District. Electricity was first connected to the parish in 1932 and most of the parish was supplied with water by the Herts and Essex Waterworks Co. in 1949. Population The parish was more populous in the past than at present. The peak was in the Victorian period. The parish had a population of 103 in 2001, making it the least populated parish in the district. The arithmetic population density is 15.4 per km2. Geography The parish is long and narrow, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stapleford Abbotts
Stapleford Abbotts is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, approximately SW of Ongar, N of Romford and SSE of Epping. The whole parish is within the M25 motorway. The village covers and had a population of 959 in 2001, increasing to 1,008 at the 2011 Census. History The name of the parish arose because the principal manor was held by the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds from before the Norman Conquest to the Dissolution. A story is recorded in the abbey's registers that the lord of the manor was miraculously cured of a lingering illness in 1013 by the body of St Edmund as it passed back to Bury Abbey from London. In gratitude for being cured, he gave the manor to the abbey, either then or some time later.''British History'' – Access to historic documents and research from the |
Stanford Rivers
Stanford Rivers is a village and civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ... in the Epping Forest (district), Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The parish, which is approximately west from the county town of Chelmsford, contains the village of Toot Hill, Essex, Toot Hill and the hamlet of Little End, both settlements larger than Stanford Rivers village, and the hamlet of Clatterford End, Stanford Rivers, Clatterford End. The village is south-east of Chipping Ongar, south-west of North Weald Bassett and 3 miles north-west of Kelvedon Hatch. The parish covers an area of 1,749 hectares. The nearest London Underground station to the village is Epping tube station, Epping, to the west, the terminus of the Central line (London Underground), Central line. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley, Essex
Shelley is a partly rural village and partly residential conurbation in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The former civil parish of Shelley focused on the parish church and the manor house of Shelley Hall at the north of the parish, and was bounded at the north by the civil parish of Moreton, the south by the A414 Harlow to Chelmsford Road, the east by the B184 road from Chipping Ongar to Great Dunmow, and the west by the southeast-to-northwest Moreton Road which edges Shelley Common with its Roding tributary of Cripsey Brook."Shelley: Introduction" in ''A History of the County of Essex'', vol 4, Ongar Hundred, ed. W R Powell (London, 1956), pp. 203-204. |
Norton Mandeville
Norton Mandeville is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of High Ongar, in of the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The settlement is at the north of the parish, and less than 1 mile north from the A414 Harlow to Chelmsford Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It is located north-east of London a ... road. In 1961 the civil parish had a population of 187. On the 1 April 1986 the civil parish was merged with High Ongar. Norton Mandeville has an Anglican parish church dedicated to All Saints. References External links * Villages in Essex Former civil parishes in Essex Epping Forest District {{Essex-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Weald Bassett
North Weald Bassett or simply North Weald is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The village is within the North Weald Ridges and Valleys landscape area. A market is held every Saturday and Bank Holiday Monday at North Weald Airfield. The market used to be the largest open air market in the country but reduced its size over the years. Geography North Weald Bassett in approximately north-east from the centre of London. The parish abuts the outskirts of the towns of Harlow to the north and Epping to the south-west, and is split between these post towns for postal addresses. The parish includes the village of North Weald and the hamlets of Foster Street, Thornwood, Thornwood Common, Tyler's Green, and Hastingwood. It is rural, with large sections of parish land at the south-west used by North Weald Golf Course, and North Weald Airfield and (ICAO: EGSX), an operational general aviation aerodrome which was an important fighter station during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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