Lambourne, Essex
Historical Description
Lambourne, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands near Hainault Forest, 1½ mile SE of the river Roding, 1 SE from Theydon Bois station on the G.E.R., 7 miles NNW of Romford, and is an ancient place mentioned in Domesday book. The parish contains also the village of Abridge, where there is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Romford. Acreage, 2470; population, 904. Bishops Hall was the residence of Hemy-le-Despenser, the Bishop of Norwich, celebrated for his warlike prowess, who suppressed the insurgent rising in the eastern counties in the reign of Richard II., and is now the seat of the Lockwood family. A tract of woodland about 314 acres in extent, the greater part of which is in this parish, is all that now remains of Hainault Forest. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Abridge, in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £336 with residence. Patrons, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The church is a very ancient building of brick rubble faced with plaster in the Georgian style, consists of chancel and nave with a small western turret, and contains the tomb of Thomas Winniffe, Bishop of Lincoln (1642), who was at one time rector of the parish, and who died there in 1654. There are a chapel of ease at Abridge, a Congregational chapel, and some small charities. The parish council consists of five members.
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 | Lambourn St. Mary and All Saints | |
Hundred | Ongar | |
Poor Law union | Ongar |
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 Lambourne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lambourn, or Lambourne (St. Mary and 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 Lambourne 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: