History of Witham

Witham, High Street 1900
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.

White's Directory of Essex 1848

WITHAM, a small, but handsome and well-built market town, is pleasantly situated on the high road from London to Colchester, >>more.

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

More local history sources

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

Search for Witham 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

Chipping Hill, Witham
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.

Extracts from various books on the history of Witham and Domesday Witham.

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

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 045, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

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

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.

Whitham
print published 1834