Place:Belchamp Rural, Essex, England

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NameBelchamp Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates52°N 0.7°E
Located inEssex, England     (1894 - 1934)
See alsoHalstead Rural, Essex, Englandrural district into which it was absorbed in 1934
Braintree District, Essex, Englanddistrict municipality which has covered the area since 1974
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Belchamp Rural District was located in Essex in England. Its northern border was that of Essex with Suffolk.

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Sudbury rural sanitary district which was in Essex (the rest going to form the Melford Rural District in Suffolk).

Belchamp Rural District was abolished in 1934 under a County Review Order, and was merged into the Halstead Rural District.

Image:Halstead RD and UD in 1934 25pc.png

Parishes

Map no Parish Duration Description Notes
BL1 Alphamstone 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Ballingdon 1894 - 1896 Chapelry/Ancient parish/Civil parish transferred to Suffolk in 1896
BL2 Belchamp Otten 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL3 Belchamp St. Paul 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL4 Belchamp Walter 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL5 Borley 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL6 Bulmer 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL7 Bures 1894 - 1934 Hamlet/Civil parish
BL8 Foxearth 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL9 Gestingthorpe 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL10 Great Henny 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL11 Lamarsh 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL12 Liston 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL13 Little Henny 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL14 Middleton 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL15 North Wood 1894 - 1934 Civil parish
BL16 Pentlow 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL17 Twinstead 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL18 Wickham St. Paul 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish

Research tips

  • Essex Record Office handles Essex archives within the county. The address is Wharf Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6YT.
  • The Essex Society for Family History covers topics of genealogical interest throughout the present County of Essex (i.e. excluding the western area now in Greater London). Subscription necessary.
  • GENUKI provides a list of towns and parishes leading to pages for individual parishes with useful local information for genealogists and family historians.
  • Wikimedia Commons has a set of maps of the old hundreds of Essex. These do not show the individual parishes within the hundreds.
  • For very detailed investigation Wikimedia Commons also has a series of 176 part maps of the Ordnance Survey 1st series 1:10560, Map of Essex
  • FamilySearch lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
  • The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).
  • A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
  • British History Online has transcribed eight volumes of the Victoria County History project for Essex. Seven of these cover the history of parts of the county in great detail, although the project is incomplete for Essex as a whole. Ownership of land through the centuries can often be traced here. The volumes of note are as follows:
Volume 4, Ongar Hundred, including Chipping and High Ongar, Chigwell, Stondon Massey and Theydon Bois (26 parishes in all).
Volume 5, Becontree Hundred outside Greater London. A thematic account of the growth of metropolitan Essex since 1850. Also contains topographical accounts of Barking, Ilford, Dagenham and other areas of Essex now within Greater London.
Volume 6, parishes of Becontree Hundred now within the London boroughs of Newham, Waltham Forest and Redbridge. These include West and East Ham, Walthamstow and Wanstead.
Volume 7, Covers the ancient parishes, formerly within the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower and now within the London borough of Havering, and those in Chafford hundred in western Essex now bordering London. It includes accounts of Hornchurch, Romford, Havering.
Volume 8, accounts of the parishes of Chafford and Harlow Hundreds, including Brentwood, Harlow and Thurrock.
Volume 9, the Borough of Colchester, describes the life of the oldest and for long the largest town in Essex from the Iron Age to 1990.
Volume 10, Lexden Hundred (part), includes Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe and other parishes to the north and west of Colchester.
  • As of June 2019 Ancestry (Worldwide subscription required) includes Essex, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, these early records are from parish registers of baptisms and burials during the years 1538–1812, and marriages during the years 1538-1754. These are in addition to their previous holdings:
  • Essex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1918: 3,937,941 records
  • Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1935: 1,968,439 records
  • Essex, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1994: 730,118 records
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