Langford Essex Family History Guide
Langford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic
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Adjacent Parishes
- Wickham Bishops
- Ulting
- Woodham Walter
- Maldon All Saints with St Peter
- Great Totham
- Hatfield Peverel
- Heybridge
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LANGFORD, a village and a parish in Maldon district, Essex.
The village stands on the river Blackwater, near its confluence with the Chelmer, and adjacent to the Maldon railway, 1½ mile NW by N of Maldon; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Maldon.
The parish comprises 1,076 acres. Real property, £2,002. Pop., 279. Houses, 49. The property is subdivided. Langford Grove is a chief residence.
The Blackwater here was anciently much broader than now; and was crossed by a long ford which gave name to the parish, and which was in use in the time of Edward the Confessor. The alluvial grounds formed by deposit of the river, and now meadow, are very fertile.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £294. Patron, the Hon. F. Byron. The church is early Norman, in good condition; and has a wooden spire.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Maldon
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Colchester
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Witham, Post-1846 – Hatfield Peverel
- Poor Law Union: Maldon
- Hundred: Thurstable
- Province: Canterbury