Stapleford Tawney is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

Epping Forest Epping Forest is a area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, which straddles the border between Greater London and Essex. The main body of the forest stretches from Epping in the north, to Chingford on the edge of the Lond ...

district of

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, England. Stapleford Tawney is approximately west-southwest from

Chipping Ongar Chipping Ongar () is a market town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest District of the county of Essex, England. It is located east of Epping, southeast of Harlow and northwest of Brentwood. In 2020 ...

and southwest from the

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History

Historically Stapleford Tawney was included in the

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of Ongar. It formed part of the Ongar Rural District Council from 1894 until that authority was absorbed into Epping and Ongar Rural District Council in 1955. Following local government reorganisation in 1974 it became part of

Epping Forest District Epping Forest District is a local government district in Essex, England. It is named after the ancient woodland of Epping Forest, a large part of which lies within the district. The district covers northeastern parts of the urban area of London ...

. Electricity was first connected to the parish in 1932 and most of the parish was supplied with water by the Herts and Essex Waterworks Co. in 1949.

Population

The parish was more populous in the past than at present. The peak was in the

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. The parish had a population of 103 in 2001, making it the least populated parish in the district. The arithmetic population density is 15.4 per km².

Geography

The parish is long and narrow, extending roughly from north to south but is generally only about wide for much of its length. Its southern boundary is formed by the

River Roding The River Roding () is a river that rises at Molehill Green, Essex, England, then flows south through Essex and London and forms Barking Creek as it reaches the River Thames. Course The river leaves Molehill Green and passes through or near a ...

, while a stream flowing into it forms much of the parish's western boundary. The land rises quite steeply from below 30 metres where the Roding flows into Theydon Mount to above 90 metres in the extreme north, much of the parish being above the 60 metre contour. The parish covers an area of 670 hectares. There is no strong focus of settlement in the parish except for the parish Church of St Mary on Tawney Lane which is within a small linear group of houses and farms. At the north of the parish, from the parish church, are the hamlets of Colliers Hatch and Tawney Common. Individual farms and houses are scattered throughout the parish. Land use is mostly agricultural. The

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cuts through the southern tip of the parish.

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* Villages in Essex Civil parishes in Essex Epping Forest District {{Essex-geo-stub

History

Population

Geography

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