Chafford (hundred)
| Chafford Hundred | |
|---|---|
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| Area | |
| • 1870 | 35,712 acres (144.52 km2) |
| • 1887 | 34,703 acres (140.44 km2) |
| Population | |
| • 1870 | 16,001 |
| • 1887 | 23,839 |
| History | |
| • Created | Anglo-Saxon |
| • Abolished | no administrative or legal role after 1886, but never formally abolished. |
| • Succeeded by | various, see text |
| Status | hundred |
| • HQ | Chafford Heath |
Chafford was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Essex, England. 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.
Hundred meetings are thought to have taken place in Chafford Heath (grid reference TQ564836) in the southern part of the ecclesiastical parish of Upminster.
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.
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. The hundred covered a narrow area stretching 12 miles (19 km) northwards from the river.
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