History of Stanford Rivers

St. Margaret's Church, Stanford Rivers.
©John Winfield
Photograph by kind permission of John Winfield,
contributor to the Geograph Project

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White's Directory of Essex 1848

STANFORD RIVERS, a pleasant scattered village on the western side of the vale of the river Roding, and on the >>more.

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

More local history sources

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

Search for Stanford Rivers 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 Stanford Rivers appears in the Victorian Counties History on the British History Online web site: Stanford Rivers, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar Hundred (1956).

The Ongar Union Workhouse was situated at Stanford Rivers. History of the Workhouse.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 059, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

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

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.