Chafford was an ancient

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numerals, Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 (number), 99 and preceding 101 (number), 101. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (number), 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standar ...

in the south west of the county of

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.Vision of Britain
Chafford hundred

historic map
) Its area has been partly absorbed by the growth of

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; with its name reused for the modern housing development of

Chafford Hundred Chafford Hundred, or simply Chafford, is a housing development and suburb in the town of Grays in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. Chafford Hundred is north-west of Grays Town Centre. Its railway station serves the area and Lakesi ...

. Its former area now corresponds to part of the

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in Greater London and parts of the districts of Brentwood and Thurrock in Essex.

History

Hundred meetings are thought to have taken place in Chafford HeathHistory of the County of Essex: Volume 7,
Chafford hundred: Introduction
', (1978) () in the southern part of the ecclesiastical parish of Upminster. The hundred contained the parishes of

Aveley Aveley is a village and former civil parish in the unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex, England, and forms one of the traditional Church of England parishes. Aveley is 16 miles (26.2 km) east of Charing Cross. In the 2021 United King ...

, Brentwood, Childerditch,

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Great Warley Great Warley (also known as Warley Abbess, Warley Magna, Warley Wallet or West Warley) is a village located south of Brentwood, Essex, England. Great Warley was formerly a parish, but today comes under the Warley ward in the Borough of Brentwood ...

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, North Ockendon, Rainham,

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, Stifford,

Upminster Upminster is a suburb of east London, England, in the London Borough of Havering, northeast of Charing Cross. Historically a rural village, it formed an ancient parish in the Chafford hundred of the county of Essex. The economic history of ...

, Wennington and

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.British History Online
Map of Chafford Hundred c. 1845
/ref> It bordered Ongar hundred to the north, Barstable hundred to the east and

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liberty to the west. The

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formed a boundary with

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to the south. The hundred covered a narrow area stretching northwards from the river.

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 The London boroughs are the current 32 local authority districts that together with the City of London make up the administrative area of Greater London, England; each is governed by a London borough council. The present London boroughs wer ...

(1965) and non-metropolitan districts (1974), further change occurred in 1998 when Thurrock became a unitary authority.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chafford History of the London Borough of Havering Borough of Brentwood History of local government in London (pre-1855) Hundreds of Essex History of Thurrock

History

Replacement

See also

References