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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyEssex 
Ecclesiastical parishCranham All Saints 
HundredChafford 
Poor Law unionRomford 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Cranham from the following:


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

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online:

DistrictHavering
CountyGreater London
RegionLondon
CountryEngland
Postal districtRM14
Post TownUpminster

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