Place:Dunmow Rural, Essex, England

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NameDunmow Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates51.86°N 0.4°E
Located inEssex, England     (1894 - 1974)
See alsoUttlesford (district), Essex, Englanddistrict municipality to which the area was transferred in 1974
Dunmow Rural District existed in the north central section of County of Essex from 1894 until 1974. It covered the large village of Great Dunmow and other civil parishes in the vicinity. There were some alterations to its boundaries in 1933-34 and a further set in 1955. When it was abolished in 1974, the area became part of the Uttlesford non-metropolitan District. Most of its parishes had been part of the Dunmow Hundred prior to 1894. Image:Dunmow Rural.png

Parishes

Map No Parish Duration Description Notes
D1 Aythorpe Roding 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D2 Bardfield Saling 1894 - 1934 Hamlet/Chapelry/Ancient parish/Civil parish transferred to Braintree Rural District in 1934
D3 Barnston 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D4 Broxted 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D5 Chickney 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D6 Felsted 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D7 Great Bardfield 1894 - 1934 Ancient parish/Civil parish transferred to Braintree Rural District in 1934
D8 Great Canfield 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D9 Great Dunmow 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D10 Great Easton 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D11 Great Hallingbury 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish transferred from Stanstead Rural District in 1934
D12 Hatfield Broad Oak 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D13 High Easter 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D14 High Roding 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D15 Leaden Roding 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D16 Lindsell 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D17 Little Bardfield 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D18 Little Canfield 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D19 Little Dunmow 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D20 Little Easton 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D21 Little Hallingbury 1934 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish transferred from Stanstead Rural District in 1934
D22 Margaret Roding 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D23 Stebbing 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D24 Takeley 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D25 Thaxted 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D26 Tilty 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish
D27 White Roding 1894 - 1974 Ancient parish/Civil parish

Research tips

  • Essex Record Office handles Essex archives within the county. The address is Wharf Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6YT.
  • The Essex Society for Family History covers topics of genealogical interest throughout the present County of Essex (i.e. excluding the western area now in Greater London). Subscription necessary.
  • GENUKI provides a list of towns and parishes leading to pages for individual parishes with useful local information for genealogists and family historians.
  • Wikimedia Commons has a set of maps of the old hundreds of Essex. These do not show the individual parishes within the hundreds.
  • For very detailed investigation Wikimedia Commons also has a series of 176 part maps of the Ordnance Survey 1st series 1:10560, Map of Essex
  • FamilySearch lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
  • The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).
  • A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
  • British History Online has transcribed eight volumes of the Victoria County History project for Essex. Seven of these cover the history of parts of the county in great detail, although the project is incomplete for Essex as a whole. Ownership of land through the centuries can often be traced here. The volumes of note are as follows:
Volume 4, Ongar Hundred, including Chipping and High Ongar, Chigwell, Stondon Massey and Theydon Bois (26 parishes in all).
Volume 5, Becontree Hundred outside Greater London. A thematic account of the growth of metropolitan Essex since 1850. Also contains topographical accounts of Barking, Ilford, Dagenham and other areas of Essex now within Greater London.
Volume 6, parishes of Becontree Hundred now within the London boroughs of Newham, Waltham Forest and Redbridge. These include West and East Ham, Walthamstow and Wanstead.
Volume 7, Covers the ancient parishes, formerly within the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower and now within the London borough of Havering, and those in Chafford hundred in western Essex now bordering London. It includes accounts of Hornchurch, Romford, Havering.
Volume 8, accounts of the parishes of Chafford and Harlow Hundreds, including Brentwood, Harlow and Thurrock.
Volume 9, the Borough of Colchester, describes the life of the oldest and for long the largest town in Essex from the Iron Age to 1990.
Volume 10, Lexden Hundred (part), includes Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe and other parishes to the north and west of Colchester.
  • As of June 2019 Ancestry (Worldwide subscription required) includes Essex, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, these early records are from parish registers of baptisms and burials during the years 1538–1812, and marriages during the years 1538-1754. These are in addition to their previous holdings:
  • Essex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1918: 3,937,941 records
  • Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1935: 1,968,439 records
  • Essex, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1994: 730,118 records