History of Bobbingworth

Bobbingworth with St. Germain's Church
©John Winfield
Photograph by kind permission of John Winfield,
contributor to the Geograph Project

White's Directory of Essex 1848

BOBBINGWORTH, a pleasant retired village, surrounding a green, 5 miles North East by East of Epping, and 2 miles >>more.

White's Directory of Essex 1848 - list of inhabitants.

More local history sources

Books featuring Bobbingworth from Abebooks. Just click the logo. The search terms are already formatted for Bobbingworth.

Search for Bobbingworth census returns at ancestry.co.uk.

1841 England Census | 1851 England Census | 1861 England Census
1871 England Census | 1881 England Census | 1891 England Census
1901 England Census

Essex1841.com transcript of 1841 census

The Essex Record Office: an excellent starting point for research. The ERO has an online catalogue by the name of SEAX and a database of Parish Records held in the ERO. Access to both via their home page.

Excellent detailed information on the history of Bobbingworth appears in the Victorian Counties History on the British History Online web site: Bobbingworth: A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar Hundred (1956).

Web site with a short history of Blake Hall, Bobbingworth.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 050, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

Ordnance Survey - type the place name in the gazetteer search box to view detailed map of Bobbingworth.

Images of England web site which has a photographic record of England's listed buildings - from the grandest house to the humblest cottage. Enter the town or village in the search box. Photographs are accompanied by a detailed architectural description of the property.