Place:Great Parndon, Essex, England

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NameGreat Parndon
Alt namesPerendunasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 104
Perindunasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 104
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates51.75°N 0.083°E
Located inEssex, England
See alsoEpping Rural, Essex, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1955
Harlow, Essex, Englandcivil parish into which it was mostly absorbed in 1955
Epping Forest (district), Essex, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
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Great Parndon was a civil parish in Essex, England, that in 1974 was absorbed by the new town of Harlow.

It had a recorded population of 18 people in 1086, rising to 41 by 1524–25. In 1622, there were 71 houses between the two parishes of Great and Little Parndon, with most names attributed to Great Parndon. The population of Great Parndon rose slowly from 300 in 1801 to 534 in 1891, reaching 576 in 1921, falling to 504 in 1931, then rising to 684 in 1951, by which time the building of Harlow town had begun.

Great Parndon had formed an "ancient parish" in the Harlow hundred of Essex. In the 19th century it was part of the Epping Poor Law Union and was within the Epping rural sanitary district. In 1894 it became part of Epping Rural District. In 1934 it gained a small part of the parish of Eastwick, Hertfordshire.

The civil parish of Great Parndon was abolished in 1955 and the area was mostly incorporated in the new parish and urban district of Harlow, while small areas in the south-east and south-west were transferred to Roydon, Epping Upland, and North Weald Bassett parishes.

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