High Beech Essex Family History Guide

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High Beech is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Essex, created in 1836 from Waltham Abbey Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1837
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1837

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HIGH BEECH, a chapelry in Waltham Abbey parish, Essex; in Epping forest, 2 miles E of the boundary with Middlesex, and 3¼ SE of Waltham r. station.

It was constituted in 1836; and its post town is Waltham Abbey, London N. Pop., 531. Houses, 96.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value, not reported. Patron, the Bishop of Rochcster. The church is modern.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Essex, High Beech – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for High Beech, 1837-1859
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of High Beech (Essex)

Parish registers for High Beech, 1837-1982
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of High Beech (Essex); Essex Record Office

Parish registers for St. Thomas’ Church, Upshire, 1937-1971
Author: Church of England. St. Thomas’ Church (Upshire, Essex)

Administration

  • County: Essex
  • Civil Registration District: Edmonton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Epping
  • Poor Law Union: Edmonton
  • Hundred: Waltham
  • Province: Canterbury