Place:Epping Rural, Essex, England

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NameEpping Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates51.72°N 0.08°E
Located inEssex, England     (1894 - 1955)
See alsoEpping and Ongar Rural, Essex, Englandrural district into which the area was transferred in 1955
Epping Forest (district), Essex, Englanddistrict municipality in which the area has been located since 1974
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Epping Rural District was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Epping Rural Sanitary District. The rural district was governed by a directly elected rural district council (RDC), which replaced the rural sanitary authority that had comprised the poor law guardians for the area. The council's headquarters were in the town of Epping.

Over its existence, the rural district lost territory to new urban districts. In 1896 Epping became a separate urban district, although Epping RDC continued to be based in the town. Loughton and Chigwell were constituted urban districts in 1900 and 1933 respectively.

Epping RD was finally abolished when the New Town of Harlow was constituted an urban district in 1955. The remainder of the rural district was merged with the neighbouring Ongar Rural District to form Epping and Ongar Rural District.

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Parishes

The unmarked parishes were transferred to Epping and Ongar Rural District in 1955.

Parish Duration Description Notes
Chigwell 1894 - 1933 Ancient parish/Civil parish became Chigwell Urban District in 1933
Epping 1894 - 1896 Ancient parish/Civil parish became Epping Urban District in 1896
Epping Upland 1896 - 1955 Chapelry, Civil parish split between Harlow Urban District and Epping and Ongar Rural District in 1955
Great Parndon 1894 - 1949 Ancient parish/Civil parish split between North Weald Bassett and Harlow Urban District in 1949
Harlow 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish became Harlow Urban District in 1955
Latton 1894 - 1949 Ancient parish/Civil parish split between North Weald Bassett and Harlow Urban District in 1949
Little Parndon 1894 - 1946 Ancient parish/Civil parish to Netteswell Parish in 1946
Loughton 1894 - 1900 Ancient parish/Civil parish became Loughton Urban District in 1900, then part of Chigwell Urban District in 1933
Magdalen Laver 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Matching 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Nazeing 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Netteswell 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish became part of Harlow Urban District in 1955
North Weald Bassett 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Roydon 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish part transferred to Harlow Urban District in 1955
Sheering 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Theydon Bois 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish
Theydon Garnon 1894 - 1955 Ancient parish/Civil parish

Research Tips

  • A map of the post-1974 Epping Forest District illustrating the locations of all parishes in the Epping and Ongar Rural Districts.
  • 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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