History of Ongar (Chipping Ongar)

Ongar, High Street 1923
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.

White's Directory of Essex 1848

ONGAR (CHIPPING) is a small and remarkably clean and neat market town, pleasantly situated betwixt and near the >>more.

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

Piggott's Directory of Essex 1824

Piggott's Directory of Essex 1824 - list of inhabitants.

Post Office Directory of Essex 1874

Post Office Directory of Essex 1874 - list of inhabitants.

Ongar Snippets

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

Search for Chipping Ongar 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

High Street, Ongar
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.

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

Brief archeological history of Chipping Ongar on the Essex County Council's Unlocking Essex.

Community web site with some of the history of Ongar.

Parish registers of Ongar, Essex, 1558-1812 - transcribed in 1886. Download from the Internet Archive.

History of the Epping to Ongar Line

Detailed information on the Ongar Union Workhouse at nearby Stanford Rivers.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 051, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

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

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.

Chipping Ongar
print published 1834