Alphabetical list of Essex towns and villages and their histories.
This list does not include those places which are now part of Greater London. A list of these can be found on the The East of London Family History Society's web site.
Abberton | Abbess Roding | Abridge | Aldham | Alphamstone | Althorne | Ardleigh | Arkesden | Alresford | Ashdon | Asheldham | Ashen | Ashingdon | Aveley | Aythorpe Roding
Baddow | Bardfield Saling | Barling | Barnston | Basildon | Battlesbridge | Beauchamp Roding | Beazley End | Beaumont-cum-Moze | Belchamp Otton | Belchamp St. Paul | Belchamp Walter | Benfleet | Berden | Berechurch | Berners Roding | Bicknacre | Billericay | Birch | Birchanger | Birdbrook | Black Notley | Blackmore | Blackmore End | Bobbingworth | Bocking | Boreham | Borley | Bowers Gifford | Boxted | Bradfield | Bradwell Juxta Mare | Bradwell | Braintree | Brentwood | Brightlingsea | Broomfield | Broxted | Buckhurst Hill | Bulmer | Bulphan | Burnham-on-Crouch | Buttsbury
Canewdon | Canvey Island | Castle Hedingham | Chadwell St Mary | Chappel | Chelmsford | Chickney | Chignall Smealy | Chignall St. James | Chigwell | Chigwell Row | Childerditch | Chipping Ongar | Chrishall | Clavering | Clacton | Coggeshall | Colchester | Cold Norton | Colne Engaine | Copford | Corringham | Crays Hill | Creeksea | Cressing
Danbury | Debden | Dedham | Dengie | Doddinghurst | Dovercourt | Downham | Dunmow | Dunton Wayletts | Duddenhoe End
Earls Colne | East Donyland | East Hanningfield | East Horndon | East Tilbury | Easthorpe | East Mersea | Eastwood | Elmdon | Elmstead | Elsenham | Edney Green (or Common) | Epping | Epping Upland
Fairstead | Farnham | Faulkbourne | Feering | Felsted | Finchingfield | Fingringhoe | Fobbing | Fordham | Foulness | Foxearth | Frating | Frinton | Fryerning | Fullbridge | Fyfield
Galleywood | Gestingthorpe | Goldhanger | Good Easter | Gosfield | Grays Thurrock | Great Baddow | Great Bardfield | Great Bentley | Great Braxted | Great Bromley | Great Burstead | Great Canfield | Great Chesterford | Great Chishill | Great Clacton | Great Coggeshall | Great Dunmow | Great Easton | Great Hallingbury | Great Henny | Great Holland | Great Horkesley | Great Leighs | Great Maplestead | Great Oakley | Great Parndon | Great Saling | Great Sampford | Great Stambridge | Great Tey | Great Totham | Great Wakering | Great Waltham | Great Warley | Great Wigborough | Great Yeldham | greensted (near Ongar) | Greenstead (near Colchester)
Hadleigh | Hadstock | Halstead | Harlow | Harwich | Hatfield Broad Oak | Hatfield Peverel | Havengore | Hawkwell | Hazeleigh | Helions Bumpstead | Hempstead | Henham | Herongate | Heybridge | Heydon | High Beech | High Easter | High Garrett | High Laver | High Ongar | High Roding | Highwood | Hockley | Holland on Sea | Horndon on the Hill | Hullbridge | Hutton
Ingatestone | Ingrave | Inworth
Kelvedon | Kelvedon Hatch | Kirby le Soken
Laindon | Laindon Hills | Lamarsh | Lambourne | Langenhoe | Langford | Langham | Langley | Latchingdon | Latton | Lawford | Layer Breton | Layer de la Haye | Layer Marney | Leaden Roding | Leigh | Lexden | Lindsell | Liston | Little Baddow | Little Bardfield | Little Bentley | Little Braxted | Little Bromley | Little Burstead | Little Canfield | Little Chesterford | Little Chishill | Little Clacton | Little Coggeshall | Little Dunmow | Little Easton | Little Hallingbury | Little Henny | Little Holland | Little Horkesley | Little Laver | Little Leighs | Little Maplestead | Little Oakley | Little Parndon | Little Sampford | Little Stambridge | Little Tey | Little Thurrock | Little Totham | Little Wakering | Little Waltham | Little Warley | Little Wigborough | Little Yeldham | Littlebury | Loughton
Magdalen Laver | Maldon | Manningtree | Manuden | Margaret Roding | Margaretting | Marks Tey | Marks Hall | Mashbury | Matching | Mayland | Messing | Middleton | Mistley | Moreton | Moulsham | Mount Bures | Mountnessing | Mucking | Mundon | Myland (or Mile End)
Navestock | Nazeing | Netteswell |Nevendon | Newport | North Benfleet | North Fambridge | North Ockendon | North Shoebury | North Stifford | North Weald Bassett | Norton Mandeville
Paglesham | Panfield | Pattiswick | Pebmarsh | Peldon | Pentlow | Pitsea | Pleshey | Pontisbright | Potter Street | Purfleet | Prittlewell | Purleigh
Radwinter | Ramsden Bellhouse | Ramsden Crays | Ramsey | Rawreth | Rayleigh | Rayne | Rettendon | Rickling | Ridgewell | Rivenhall | Rochford | Roxwell | Roydon | Runwell | Rye Hill
Saffron Walden | Salcott | Sandon | Shalford | Sheering | Shelley | Shellow Bowells | Shenfield | Shoeburyness | Shopland | Sible Hedingham | Snoreham | South Benfleet | Southend-on-Sea | South Frambridge | South Hanningfield | South Ockendon | South Shoebury | South Weald | Southchurch | Southminster | Springfield | St Lawrence | St Osyth | Stambourne | Stanford-le-Hope | Stanford Rivers | Stansted Montfitchet | Stanway | Stapleford Abbotts | Stapleford Tawney | Stebbing | Steeple | Steeple Bumpstead | Sewardstone | Stisted | Stock | Stondon Massey | Stow Maries | Strethall | Sturmer | Sutton
Takeley | Tendring | Terling | Thaxted | Thorpe le Soken | Thorrington | Theydon Bois | Theydon Garnon | Theydon Mount | Thundersley | Tilbury | Tilbury Juxta Clare | Tillingham | Tilty | Tiptree | Tollesbury | Tolleshunt Darcy | Tolleshunt Knights | Tolleshunt Major | Toppesfield | Twinstead
Wakes Colne | Waltham Abbey | Walton-on-the-Naze | Warley | Weeley | Wendens Ambo | Wendon Lofts | Wethersfield | West Bergholt | West Hanningfield | West Horndon | West Mersea | West Thurrock | West Tilbury | White Colne | White Notley | White Roding | Wicken Bonhunt | Wickford | Wickham Bishops | Wickham St. Paul | Widdington | Widford | Willingale Doe | Willingale Spain | Wimbish | Witham | Wivenhoe | Wix | Woodham Ferrers | Woodham Mortimer | Woodham Walter | Wormingford | Wrabness | Writtle