History of Childerditch

All Saints and St Faith's Church, Childerditch
©John Winfield
Photograph by kind permission of John Winfield,
contributor to the Geograph Project

White's Directory of Essex 1848

CHILDERDITCH is a small parish of scattered houses, 3 miles South South East of Brentwood, containing 247 souls, and 1570 acres of >>more.

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

More local history sources

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

Search for Childerditch 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 Childerditch appears in the Victorian Counties History Volume 8 (1983) on the British History Online website.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 075, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

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

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.