Hundred of Chafford

Chafford Hundred
The Hundreds of Essex in 1830
Area
 • 187035,712 acres (144.52 km2)
 • 188734,703 acres (140.44 km2)
Population
 • 187016,001[1]
 • 188723,839[2]
History
 • CreatedAnglo-Saxon
 • Abolishedno administrative or legal role after 1886, but never formally abolished.
 • Succeeded byvarious, see text
Statushundred
 • HQChafford Heath

Chafford was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Essex, England.[3] Its area has been partly absorbed by the growth of London; with its name reused for the modern housing development of Chafford Hundred. Its former area now corresponds to part of the London Borough of Havering in Greater London and parts of the districts of Brentwood and Thurrock in Essex.

  1. ^ IGEW John Marius Wilson: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
  2. ^ John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles, (1887)
  3. ^ Vision of Britain - Chafford hundred Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine (historic map Archived 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine)