- Stapleford Tawney
Infobox England and Wales civil parish | Parish = Stapleford Tawney | Status = Parish | Population = 103 (2001) | District = Epping Forest | County = Essex | Region =
East of England | Constituency = Brentwood & Ongar | Euro = East of England
Website =Stapleford Tawney a
civil parish in the Epping Forest district ofEssex . It is located approximately 5 km (3 miles) WSW of Ongar and 11 km (7 miles) north ofRomford . It covers an area of 670 hectares and had a population of 103 in2001 , making it the least populated parish in the district.cite web |url=http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/Council_Services/planning/census/StaplefordTawney.asp |title=Parish Profile : Stapleford Tawney |accessdate=2007-03-21 |format= |work=www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk ] The arithmetic population density is 15.4 perkm 2.Geography
The parish is long and narrow, extending roughly three miles from north to south but is generally only about a mile wide for much of its length. Its southern boundary is formed by the
River Roding , while a stream flowing into it forms much of the parish’s western boundary. The land rises quite steeply from below 30 metres where the Roding flows intoTheydon Mount to above 90 metres in the extreme north, much of the parish being above the 60 metre contour.cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15680 |title='Stapleford Tawney: Introduction', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar Hundred (1956), pp. 233-34. |format= |work=A History of the County of Essex ]Unsurprisingly for such a sparsely populated rural parish, there is no village or single focus of settlement. Individual farms and houses are scattered throughout the parish. Land use is mostly agricultural. The
M25 motorway cuts through the southern tip of the parish.History
Historically Stapleford Tawney was included in the hundred of Ongar. It formed part of the
Ongar Rural District Council from 1894 until that authority was absorbed intoEpping and Ongar Rural District Council in 1955. Following local government reorganisation in 1974 it became part of Epping Forest District Council.Electricity was first connected to the parish in 1932 and most of the parish was supplied with water by
Herts. and Essex Waterworks Co. in 1949.Population
The parish was more populous in the past than at present. The peak was in the Victorian period.
References
ee also
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Stapleford Abbotts tatistics
* [http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/Council_Services/planning/census/StaplefordTawney.asp Parish Profile : Stapleford Tawney]
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