Cranham, Essex
Historical Description
Cranham, a parish in Essex, 1 mile E from Upminster station on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, and 4½ miles SE by E of Romford. Post town, Romford; money order and telegraph office, Upminster. Acreage, 1879; population, 465. Coombe Lodge and Beredens are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; value, £450 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church, rebuilt in 1874, is a building of stone in the Early English style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Cranham All Saints | |
Hundred | Chafford | |
Poor Law union | Romford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Cranham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cranham (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.
The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.
Maps
Online maps of Cranham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: