Place:Saffron Walden Rural, Essex, England

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NameSaffron Walden Rural
Alt namesSaffron Walden Rural District
TypeRural district
Located inEssex, England     (1894 - 1974)
See alsoUttlesford (district), Essex, Englanddistrict municipality which has covered the area since 1974
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Saffron Walden Rural District was a rural district in the northwestern corner of the county of Essex, England. It was created in 1894 and enlarged in 1934 by the addition of the parishes of Berden, Birchanger, Elsenham, Farnham, Henham-on-the-Hill, Manuden, Stansted Mountfitchet and Ugley from the disbanded Stansted Rural District. It was named after and administered from Saffron Walden.

Since 1 April 1974 the rural district has formed part of the District of Uttlesford.

Map No Parish Duration Description Notes
1 Arkesden 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
2 Ashdon 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
3 Bartlow End 1894 - 1946 Hamlet/Civil parish
4 Berden 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Stansted Rural District in 1934
5 Birchanger 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Stansted Rural District in 1934
6 Chrishall 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
7 Clavering 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
8 Debden 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
9 Elmdon 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
10 Elsenham 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Stansted Rural District in 1934
11 Farnham 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Stansted Rural District in 1934
12 Great Chesterford 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
13 Great Sampford 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
14 Hadstock 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
15 Hempstead 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
16 Henham on the Hill 1935 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Stansted Rural District in 1934
17 Langley 1894 - 1974 Chapelry/Civil parish
18 Littlebury 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
19 Little Chesterford 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
20 Little Sampford 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
21 Manuden 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Stansted Rural District in 1934
22 Newport 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
23 Quendon 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
24 Quendon and Rickling 1946 - 1974 Civil parish
25 Radwinter 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
26 Rickling 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
27 Stansted Mountfitchet 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Stansted Rural District in 1934
28 Strethall 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
29 Ugley 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish from Stansted Rural District in 1934
30 Wendens Ambo 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
31 Wendon Lofts 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
32 Wicken Bonhunt 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
33 Widdington 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
34 Wimbish 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish

Research Tips

  • The Recorders of Ucclesford History provides a series of webpages on most of the parishes in Ucclesford District. They also host transcriptions from various parishes provided by local family history societies.
  • There is no coverage for the area covered by Saffron Walden Rural District in the Victoria County History for Essex.
  • 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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