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Chafford Hundred 
The Hundreds of Essex in 1830
Geography Status hundred 1870 area 35,712 acres (144.52 km2) 1887 area 34,703 acres (140.44 km2) HQ Chafford Heath History Created Anglo-Saxon Abolished no administrative or legal role after 1886, but never formally abolished. Succeeded by various, see text Demography 1870 population 16,001[1] 1887 population 23,839[2] Chafford was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Essex, England.[3] Its area has been partly absorbed by the growth of London; with its name reused for the modern housing development of Chafford Hundred. Its former area now corresponds to part of the London Borough of Havering in Greater London and parts of the districts of Brentwood and Thurrock in Essex.
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History
Hundred meetings are thought to have taken place in Chafford Heath[4] (grid reference TQ564836). In what is now Bramble Lane, South Ockendon.
The hundred contained the parishes of Aveley, Brentwood, Childerditch, Cranham, Grays Thurrock, Great Warley, Little Warley, North Ockendon, Rainham, South Ockendon, South Weald, Stifford, Upminster, Wennington and West Thurrock.[5]
It bordered Ongar hundred to the north, Barstable hundred to the east and Havering liberty to the west. The River Thames formed a 7-mile (11 km) boundary with Kent to the south.[5] The hundred covered a narrow area stretching 12 miles (19 km) northwards from the river.[1]
Replacement
The hundreds of England declined in administrative use because of the rise of various ad-hoc boards. By 1894 they were effectively replaced by a system of uniform local government districts, which were consolidated over time and finally replaced by the London boroughs (1965) and non-metropolitan districts (1974), further change occurred in 1998 when Thurrock became a unitary authority.
Parish District Today Aveley Orsett Rural District Thurrock Brentwood Billericay Rural District Brentwood Childerditch Billericay Rural District Brentwood Cranham Romford Rural District Havering Grays Thurrock Grays Thurrock Urban District Thurrock Great Warley Romford Rural District Brentwood Little Warley Billericay Rural District Brentwood North Ockendon Romford Rural District Havering Rainham Romford Rural District Havering South Ockendon Orsett Rural District Thurrock South Weald Billericay Rural District Brentwood Stifford Orsett Rural District Thurrock Upminster Romford Rural District Havering Wennington Romford Rural District Havering West Thurrock Orsett Rural District Thurrock References
- ^ a b IGEW John Marius Wilson: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
- ^ John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles, (1887)
- ^ Vision of Britain - Chafford hundred (historic map)
- ^ History of the County of Essex: Volume 7, Chafford hundred: Introduction, (1978)
- ^ a b British History Online - Map of Chafford Hundred c. 1845
See also
- Hundreds of Essex
Categories:- History of Havering
- Brentwood
- History of local government in London (early)
- Hundreds of Essex
- History of Thurrock
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