Ford End, Essex
Historical Description
Ford End, an ecclesiastical parish formed out of Great Waltham, in 1871, in Essex, 3 miles NW from Gt Waltham. Post town, Chelmsford; money order and telegraph office, Great Waltham. Population, 743. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albany; yearly value, £180 with residence, in the gift of Trinity College, Oxford. There is a small chapel of ease at the hamlet of North End, and there are Congregational and Particular Baptist chapels in the village. Littleby Green and Eophey Green are adjacent hamlets.
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 Ford End 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: