Place:Halstead Rural, Essex, England

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NameHalstead Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates52°N 0.1°E
Located inEssex, England     ( - 1974)
See alsoBelchamp Rural, Essex, Englandrural district for certain parishes until 1934
Bumpstead Rural, Essex, Englandrural district for certain parishes until 1934
Braintree District, Essex, Englanddistrict municipality which covers the area since 1974
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Halstead Rural District was located in Essex, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as a successor to the Halstead rural sanitary district.

In 1934 it was greatly enlarged by adding the areas of the disbanded Belchamp Rural District and Bumpstead Rural District. Both of these rural districts were on the northern county border adjoining Suffolk.

Halstead Rural District was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 and now forms part of the Braintree District.

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

Parishes

Map No Parish Duration Description Notes
BL1 Alphamstone 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BP1 Ashen 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Bumpstead Rural District in 1934
BL2 Belchamp Otten 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
Bl3 Belchamp St. Paul 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BL4 Belchamp Walter 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BP2 Birdbrook 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Bumpstead Rural District in 1934
BL5 Borley 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BL6 Bulmer 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BL7 Bures 1934 - 1974 Hamlet/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
H1 Castle Hedingham 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
H2 Colne Engaine 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
H3 Earls Colne 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL8 Foxearth 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BL9 Gestingthorpe 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
H4 Gosfield 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL10 Great Henny 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
H5 Great Maplestead 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
H6 Great Yeldham 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
H7 Halstead Rural (parish) 1894 - 1974 Civil parish
BP3 Helions Bumpstead 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Bumpstead Rural District in 1934
BL11 Lamarsh 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BL12 Liston 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BL13 Little Henny 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
H8 Little Maplestead 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
H9 Little Yeldham 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL14 Middleton 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BL15 North Wood 1934 - 1946 Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
BP4 Ovington 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Bumpstead Rural District in 1934
H10 Pebmarsh 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL16 Pentlow 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
H11 Ridgewell 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
H12 Sible Hedingham 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
H13 Stambourne 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BP5 Steeple Bumpstead 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Bumpstead Rural District in 1934
BP6 Sturmer 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Bumpstead Rural District in 1934
H14 Tilbury juxta Clare 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
H15 Toppesfield 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL17 Twinstead 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934
H16 White Colne 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
BL18 Wickham St. Paul 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Belchamp Rural District in 1934

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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