Vange or Range, Essex

Historical Description

Vange or Range, a village and a parish in Essex, 1¾ mile WSW of Pitsea station on the London, Tilbury, and South-end railway, and 9 miles NE from Tilbury, with a post office under Stanford-le-Hope (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Stanford-le-Hope. Acreage, 1411; population, 292. The parish council has five members. The manor belongs to the Curtis family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £300 with residence. The church is a small building in the Perpendicular style.

Administration

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

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 Vange or Range from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Vange (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 Vange or Range 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:

• Chelmsford Chronicle
• Essex Newsman
• Essex Standard