History of Chignall Smealy

St. Nicholas' Church, Chignall Smealy
©John Winfield
Photograph by kind permission of John Winfield,
contributor to the Geograph Project

White's Directory of Essex 1848

CHIGNAL-SMEALY, or Little Chignal, is a very small parish near the source of a rivulet, 4½ miles North West of Chelmsford. It >>more.

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

More local history sources

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

Search for Chignall Smealy 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.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 043, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

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

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.