Noak Hill, Essex
Historical Description
Noak Hill, a village and a chapelry in Romford parish, Essex, 4 miles NE of Romford station, and 1 mile N by footpath from Harold Wood station on the G.E.R. There is a post office under Romford; money order and telegraph office, Havering. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Romford, in the diocese of St Albans. The church, erected in 1841-42, is a building of brick in the Early English style. Dagnam Park here is the seat of the Hon. Lady Neave.
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 Noak Hill 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: