Fordham, Essex

Historical Description

Fordham, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands near the left bank of the river Colne, 3 miles E by S of Chappel station on the Colne Valley railway, and 5 NW by W of Colchester. It has a post office under Colchester; money order office, Ford Street; telegraph office, West Berg-holt. The parish comprises 2522 acres; population, 700. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £413 with residence. Patrons, Onley Savill-Onley, Esq., and Earl Cowper, K.G., alternately. The church is Later English, has a tower, and was restored in 1861— The celebrated Independent Dr John Owen, chaplain to Cromwell, was rector for some time during the Commonwealth. There is a chapel of Lady Huntingdon's Connexion.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Fordham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fordham, or Great Fordham (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 Fordham 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