Rainham, Essex
Historical Description
Rainham, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands on Ingrebourae Brook, 1½ mile from its influx to the Thames, and on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, 5 miles ESE of Barking. It forms a considerable street, and has a station on the railway, a post, money order, and telegraph office under Romford, a bridge over the Ingre-bourne, which is navigable for barges to the wharf in the village, and a quay at the brook's mouth. The parish comprises 3253 acres; population, 1669. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £335 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone dating from the 12th century, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a massive embattled western tower. It has a brass of 1500. There is also an undenominational chapel.
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 | Raynham St. Helen and St. Giles | |
Hundred | Chafford | |
Poor Law union | Romford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Rainham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Raynham (St. Helen and St. Giles))
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 Rainham 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: