Stapleford Tawney 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 Epping Forest is a area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, which straddles the border between Greater London and Essex. The main body of the forest stretches from Epping in the north, to Chingford on the edge of the London ...

district of

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

, England. Stapleford Tawney is approximately west-southwest from

Chipping Ongar Chipping Ongar () is a market town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest District of the county of Essex, England. It is located east of Epping, southeast of Harlow and northwest of Brentwood. In 2020 th ...

and southwest from the

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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 ...

History

Historically Stapleford Tawney was included in the

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of Ongar. It formed part of the

Ongar Rural District Ongar Rural District was a local government district in Essex, England from 1894 to 1955.
– Ongar RD I ...

Council from 1894 until that authority was absorbed into

Epping and Ongar Rural District Epping and Ongar Rural District was a rural district in the county of Essex, England from 1955 to 1974.http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10074174 Creation It was created in 1955 by the merger of the disbanded Ongar Rural Distri ...

Council in 1955. Following local government reorganisation in 1974 it became part of

Epping Forest District Epping Forest is a local government district in Essex, England. Situated in the west of the county, bordering northeastern Greater London, it is named after, and contains a large part of, Epping Forest. The district, though wholly within the c ...

. 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

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. 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, extending roughly from north to south but is generally only about wide for much of its length. Its southern boundary is formed by the

River Roding The River Roding () rises at Molehill Green, Essex, England, then flows south through Essex and London and forms Barking Creek as it reaches the River Thames. Course The river leaves Molehill Green and passes through or near a group of eight ...

, while a stream flowing into it forms much of the parish's western boundary. The land rises quite steeply from below 30 metres where the Roding flows into

Theydon Mount Theydon Mount is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest (district), Epping Forest district of the county of Essex, England. The village is notable for the Grade I listed Elizabethan mansion, Hill Hall (Essex), Hill Hall. History The na ...

to above 90 metres in the extreme north, much of the parish being above the 60 metre contour. The parish covers an area of 670 hectares. There is no strong focus of settlement in the parish except for the parish Church of St Mary on Tawney Lane which is within a small linear group of houses and farms. At the north of the parish, from the parish church, are the hamlets of Colliers Hatch and Tawney Common. Individual farms and houses are scattered throughout the parish. Land use is mostly agricultural. The

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cuts through the southern tip of the parish.

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* Villages in Essex Civil parishes in Essex Epping Forest District {{Essex-geo-stub

History

Population

Geography

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