Canewdon

Canewdon, the Church c1965
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.

White's Directory of Essex 1848

CANEWDON, a village, on an eminence on the south side of the vale of the navigable river Crouch, 4 miles North >>more.

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

Post Office Directory of Essex 1874

Post Office Directory of Essex 1874 - list of inhabitants.

More local history sources

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

Search for Canewdon 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

Canewdon
Reproduced courtesy of Footsteps.
Quality reproductions of old photographs.

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.

Council web site with a brief history of Canewdon.

The Rochford Hundred Field Archaeology Group's Canwedon archaeological dig.

War Memorial in the chapel at Canwedon Church.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 071, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

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

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.