Great Parndon is an area and former
civil parish
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in
Essex
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, England, that has been absorbed by the new town of
Harlow and is now an
electoral ward.
It had a recorded population of 18 people in 1086, rising to 41 by 1524–25. In 1622, there were 71 houses between the two parishes of Great and Little Parndon, with most names attributed to Great Parndon, given that
Little Parndon
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was small and sparsely populated. The population of Great Parndon rose slowly from 300 in 1801 to 534 in 1891, reaching 576 in 1921, falling to 504 in 1931, then rising to 684 in 1951, by which time the building of Harlow town had begun.
It formed an ancient parish in the
Harlow hundred of Essex. It was part of the Epping
Poor Law
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Union and was within the Epping
rural sanitary district
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. In 1894 it became part of
. In 1934 it gained a small part of the parish of
Eastwick, Hertfordshire
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.
The civil parish of Great Parndon was abolished in 1955. It was mostly incorporated in the new parish and urban district of
Harlow, while small areas in the south-east and south-west were transferred to
Roydon,
Epping Upland
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, and
North Weald Bassett
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.
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Areas of Harlow
Former civil parishes in Essex