List of civil parishes in Essex

This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Essex, England.

Basildon

The former Thurrock Urban District and part of the former Basildon Urban District are unparished.

• Billericay (town)¹
• Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet ^{1 [1][2]}
• Great Burstead and South Green (village) ¹
• Little Burstead ¹
• Noak Bridge ¹
• Ramsden Bellhouse ¹
• Ramsden Crays ¹
• Shotgate ^{1 [3]}

Braintree

Part of the former Braintree and Bocking Urban District is unparished.

• Alphamstone ¹⁸
• Ashen ¹⁸
• Bardfield Saling ³
• Belchamp Otten ¹⁸
• Belchamp St Paul ¹⁸
• Belchamp Walter ¹⁸
• Birdbrook ¹⁸
• Black Notley ³
• Borley ¹⁸
• Bradwell ³
• Bulmer ¹⁸
• Bures Hamlet ¹⁸
• Castle Hedingham ¹⁸
• Coggeshall ³
• Colne Engaine ¹⁸
• Cressing ³
• Earls Colne ¹⁸
• Fairstead ³
• Faulkbourne ³
• Feering ³
• Finchingfield ³
• Foxearth ¹⁸
• Gestingthorpe ¹⁸
• Gosfield ¹⁸
• Great Bardfield ³
• Great Henny ¹⁸
• Great Maplestead ¹⁸
• Great Notley ^{3 4}
• Great Saling ³
• Great Yeldham ¹⁸
• Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural ¹⁸
• Halstead (town)¹⁹
• Hatfield Peverel ³
• Helions Bumpstead ¹⁸
• Kelvedon ³
• Lamarsh ¹⁸
• Liston ¹⁸
• Little Henny ¹⁸
• Little Maplestead ¹⁸
• Little Yeldham ¹⁸
• Middleton ¹⁸
• Ovington ¹⁸
• Panfield ³
• Pebmarsh ¹⁸
• Pentlow ¹⁸
• Rayne ³
• Ridgewell ¹⁸
• Rivenhall ³⁴
• Shalford ³
• Sible Hedingham ¹⁸
• Silver End ³⁴
• Stambourne ¹⁸
• Steeple Bumpstead ¹⁸
• Stisted ³
• Sturmer ¹⁸
• Terling ³
• Tilbury juxta Clare ¹⁸
• Toppesfield ¹⁸
• Twinstead ¹⁸
• Wethersfield ³
• White Colne ¹⁸
• White Notley ³
• Wickham St Paul ¹⁸
• Witham (town)³⁴

Brentwood

Part of the former Brentwood Urban District is unparished.

• Blackmore, Hook End and Wyatts Green ¹⁶
• Doddinghurst ¹⁶
• Herongate and Ingrave ⁵
• Ingatestone and Fryerning ¹⁰
• Kelvedon Hatch ¹⁶
• Mountnessing ¹⁰
• Navestock ¹⁶
• Stondon Massey ¹⁶
• West Horndon ⁵

Castle Point

The former Benfleet Urban District is unparished.

• Canvey Island (town)^{8 [4]}

Chelmsford

The former Chelmsford Municipal Borough is unparished.

• Boreham ¹⁰
• Broomfield ¹⁰
• Chignall ¹⁰
• Danbury ¹⁰
• East Hanningfield ¹⁰
• Galleywood ¹⁰
• Good Easter ¹⁰
• Great and Little Leighs ¹⁰
• Great Baddow ¹⁰
• Great Waltham ¹⁰
• Highwood ¹⁰
• Little Baddow ¹⁰
• Little Waltham ¹⁰
• Margaretting ¹⁰
• Mashbury ¹⁰
• Pleshey ¹⁰
• Rettendon ¹⁰
• Roxwell ¹⁰
• Runwell ¹⁰
• Sandon ¹⁰
• South Hanningfield ¹⁰
• South Woodham Ferrers (town)¹⁰
• Springfield ¹⁰
• Stock ¹⁰
• West Hanningfield ¹⁰
• Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre ¹⁰
• Writtle ¹⁰

Colchester

Part of the former Colchester Municipal Borough is unparished.

• Abberton^{** 22}
• Aldham ²²
• Birch ²²
• Boxted ²²
• Chappel ²²
• Copford ²²
• Dedham ²²
• East Donyland ²²
• East Mersea ²²
• Eight Ash Green ²²
• Fingringhoe ²²
• Fordham ²²
• Great and Little Wigborough^{* 22}
• Great Horkesley ²²
• Great Tey ²²
• Langenhoe^{** 22}
• Langham ²²
• Layer Breton ²²
• Layer de la Haye²²
• Layer Marney ²²
• Little Horkesley ²²
• Marks Tey ²²
• Messing cum Inworth ²²
• Mount Bures ²²
• Myland ¹³
• Peldon^{* 22}
• Salcott^{* 22}
• Stanway ²²
• Tiptree ²²
• Virley^{* 22}
• Wakes Colne ²²
• West Bergholt ²²
• West Mersea (town)³³
• Wivenhoe (town)³⁵
• Wormingford ²²

^*Salcott, Virley, Peldon, Great and Little Wigborough are governed by the joint Winstred Hundred Parish Council.

^**Abberton and Langenhoe are governed by the joint Abberton and Langenhoe Parish Council.

Epping Forest

The whole of the district is parished.

• Abbess Beauchamp and Berners Roding ¹⁶
• Bobbingworth ¹⁶
• Buckhurst Hill ¹¹
• Chigwell ¹¹
• Epping (town)¹⁵
• Epping Upland ¹⁶
• Fyfield ¹⁶
• High Laver ¹⁶
• High Ongar ¹⁶
• Lambourne ¹⁶
• Little Laver ¹⁶
• Loughton (town)¹¹
• Magdalen Laver ¹⁶
• Matching ¹⁶
• Moreton ¹⁶
• Nazeing ¹⁶
• North Weald Bassett ¹⁶
• Ongar (town)¹⁶
• Roydon ¹⁶
• Sheering ¹⁶
• Stanford Rivers ¹⁶
• Stapleford Abbotts ¹⁶
• Stapleford Tawney ¹⁶
• Theydon Bois ¹⁶
• Theydon Garnon ¹⁶
• Theydon Mount ¹⁶
• Waltham Abbey (town)³²
• Willingale ¹⁶

Harlow

The former Harlow Urban District is unparished.

Maldon

The whole of the district is parished.

• Althorne ²⁴
• Asheldham ²⁴
• Bradwell on Sea ²⁴
• Burnham on Crouch (town)⁷
• Cold Norton ²⁴
• Dengie ²⁴
• Goldhanger ²⁴
• Great Braxted ²⁴
• Great Totham ²⁴
• Hazeleigh ²⁴
• Heybridge ²³
• Langford ²⁴
• Latchingdon ²⁴
• Little Braxted ²⁴
• Little Totham ²⁴
• Maldon (town)²³
• Mayland ²⁴
• Mundon ²⁴
• North Fambridge ²⁴
• Purleigh ²⁴
• Southminster (town) ²⁴
• St Lawrence ²⁴
• Steeple ²⁴
• Stow Maries ²⁴
• Tillingham ²⁴
• Tollesbury ²⁴
• Tolleshunt D'Arcy ²⁴
• Tolleshunt Knights ²⁴
• Tolleshunt Major ²⁴
• Ulting ²⁴
• Wickham Bishops ²⁴
• Woodham Mortimer ²⁴
• Woodham Walter ²⁴

Rochford

The whole of the district is parished.

• Ashingdon ²⁶
• Barling Magna ²⁶
• Canewdon ²⁶
• Foulness ²⁶
• Great Wakering ²⁶
• Hawkwell ²⁶
• Hockley ²⁶
• Hullbridge ²⁶
• Paglesham ²⁶
• Rawreth ²⁵
• Rayleigh (town)²⁵
• Rochford ²⁶
• Stambridge ²⁶
• Sutton ²⁶

Southend on Sea

Part of the former Southend on Sea County Borough is unparished.

• Leigh on Sea (town)²⁹

Tendring

The former Clacton Urban District is unparished.

• Alresford ³⁰
• Ardleigh ³⁰
• Beaumont cum Moze ³⁰
• Bradfield ³⁰
• Brightlingsea (town)⁶
• Elmstead ³⁰
• Frating ³⁰
• Frinton and Walton (town)¹⁷
• Great Bentley ³⁰
• Great Bromley ³⁰
• Great Oakley ³⁰
• Harwich (town)²¹
• Lawford ³⁰
• Little Bentley ³⁰
• Little Bromley ³⁰
• Little Clacton ³⁰
• Little Oakley ³⁰
• Manningtree (town)³⁰
• Mistley ³⁰
• Ramsey and Parkeston ³⁰
• St Osyth ³⁰
• Tendring ³⁰
• Thorpe le Soken ³⁰
• Thorrington ³⁰
• Weeley ³⁰
• Wix ³⁰
• Wrabness ³⁰

Thurrock

The former Thurrock Urban District is unparished.

Uttlesford

The whole of the district is parished.

• Arkesden ²⁸
• Ashdon ²⁸
• Aythorpe Roding ¹⁴
• Barnston ¹⁴
• Berden ²⁸
• Birchanger ²⁸
• Broxted ¹⁴
• Chickney ¹⁴
• Chrishall ²⁸
• Clavering ²⁸
• Debden ²⁸
• Elmdon ²⁸
• Elsenham ²⁸
• Farnham ²⁸
• Felsted ¹⁴
• Flitch Green ^{14 [5]}
• Great Canfield ¹⁴
• Great Chesterford ²⁸
• Great Dunmow (town)¹⁴
• Great Easton ¹⁴
• Great Hallingbury ¹⁴
• Great Sampford ²⁸
• Hadstock ²⁸
• Hatfield Broad Oak ¹⁴
• Hatfield Heath ¹⁴
• Hempstead ²⁸
• Henham ²⁸
• High Easter ¹⁴
• High Roothing ¹⁴
• Langley ²⁸
• Leaden Roding ¹⁴
• Lindsell ¹⁴
• Little Bardfield ¹⁴
• Little Canfield ¹⁴
• Little Chesterford ²⁸
• Little Dunmow ¹⁴
• Little Easton ¹⁴
• Little Hallingbury ¹⁴
• Little Sampford ²⁸
• Littlebury ²⁸
• Manuden ²⁸
• Margaret Roding ¹⁴
• Newport ²⁸
• Quendon and Rickling ²⁸
• Radwinter ²⁸
• Saffron Walden (town)²⁷
• Sewards End ^{27 [6]}
• Stansted Mountfitchet ²⁸
• Stebbing ¹⁴
• Strethall ²⁸
• Takeley ¹⁴
• Thaxted ¹⁴
• Tilty ¹⁴
• Ugley ²⁸
• Wenden Lofts ²⁸
• Wendens Ambo ²⁸
• White Roothing ¹⁴
• Wicken Bonhunt ²⁸
• Widdington ²⁸
• Wimbish ²⁸

Notes

1. Formerly Basildon Urban District ^[7]
2. Formerly Benfleet Urban District ^[8]
3. Formerly Braintree Rural District ^[9]
4. Formerly Braintree and Bocking Urban District ^[10]
5. Formerly Brentwood Urban District ^[11]
6. Formerly Brightlingsea Urban District ^[12]
7. Formerly Burnham on Crouch Urban District ^[13]
8. Formerly Canvey Island Urban District ^[14]
9. Formerly Chelmsford Municipal Borough ^[15]
10. Formerly Chelmsford Rural District ^[16]
11. Formerly Chigwell Urban District ^[17]
12. Formerly Clacton Urban District ^[18]
13. Formerly Colchester Municipal Borough ^[19]
14. Formerly Dunmow Rural District ^[20]
15. Formerly Epping Urban District ^[21]
16. Formerly Epping and Ongar Rural District ^[22]
17. Formerly Frinton and Walton Urban District ^[23]
18. Formerly Halstead Rural District ^[24]
19. Formerly Halstead Urban District ^[25]
20. Formerly Harlow Urban District ^[26]
21. Formerly Harwich Municipal Borough ^[27]
22. Formerly Lexden and Winstree Rural District ^[28]
23. Formerly Maldon Municipal Borough ^[29]
24. Formerly Maldon Rural District ^[30]
25. Formerly Rayleigh Urban District ^[31]
26. Formerly Rochford Rural District ^[32]
27. Formerly Saffron Walden Municipal Borough ^[33]
28. Formerly Saffron Walden Rural District ^[34]
29. Formerly Southend on Sea County Borough ^[35]
30. Formerly Tendring Rural District ^[36]
31. Formerly Thurrock Urban District ^[37]
32. Formerly Waltham Holy Cross Urban District ^[38]
33. Formerly West Mersea Urban District ^[39]
34. Formerly Witham Urban District ^[40]
35. Formerly Wivenhoe Urban District ^[41]

See also

• List of civil parishes in England
• The Hundred Parishes - a grouping of parishes in NW Essex, NE Herts and southern Cambridgeshire

References

External links

• Office for National Statistics : Geographical Area Listings
• Map of the Essex parishes (2010)