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1
A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5
Digitised: 20 March 2006
•  Local history •  Urban and metropolitan history
Provides a thematic account of the growth of metropolitan Essex since 1850. Also contains topographical accounts of Barking, Ilford, Dagenham and other areas of Essex now within greater London.
2
A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6
Digitised: 20 March 2006
•  Local history •  Urban and metropolitan history
Includes parishes of Becontree hundred now within the London boroughs of Newham, Waltham Forest and Redbridge. These include West and East Ham, Walthamstow and Wanstead. The rest of the hundred is treated in volume 5.
3
A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7
Digitised: 20 March 2006
•  Local history •  Urban and metropolitan history
Covers the ancient parishes, formerly within the liberty of Havering-atte-Bower and now within the London borough of Havering, and those in Chafford hundred in western Essex now bordering London. It includes accounts of Hornchurch, Romford, Havering and Rainham.
4
A History of the County of Essex: Volume 9
The Borough of Colchester
Digitised: 13 August 2004
•  Local history •  Urban and metropolitan history
The volume, the first full-scale, comprehensive and scholarly history of the ancient borough of Colchester to be published, describes the life of the oldest and for long the largest town in Essex from the Iron Age to 1990.
5
A History of the County of Essex: Volume 2
Digitised: 31 May 2005
•  Ecclesiastical and religious history •  Local history
A part-volume covering the religious houses of the county.
6
A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4
Ongar Hundred
Digitised: 19 May 2004
•  Local history
Covers the 26 parishes of Ongar hundred, including Chipping and High Ongar, Chigwell, Stondon Massey and Theydon Bois.
7
A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10
Lexden Hundred (Part) including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe
Digitised: 19 May 2004
•  Local history
Exploring the area of Lexden Hundred to the north and west of Colchester.


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