North Ockendon

Coordinates: 51°34′N 0°19′E / 51.56°N 0.31°E / 51.56; 0.31

North Ockendon
North Ockendon  North Ockendon shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ595855
- Charing Cross	18 mi (29 km)  WSW
London borough	Havering
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	UPMINSTER
Postcode district	RM14
Dialling code	01708
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Hornchurch and Upminster
London Assembly	Havering and Redbridge
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North Ockendon is an outlying settlement of northeast London, England and part of the London Borough of Havering. It is located 18 miles (29 km) east northeast of Charing Cross and consists of a dispersed settlement within the Metropolitan Green Belt. It was historically an ancient parish in the county of Essex, that was abolished for civil purposes in 1936.^[1]

History

North Ockendon (parish) population

1881	329
1891	351
1901	340
1911	309
1921	326
1931	291
source: UK census[2]

North Ockendon parish had an ancient shape that was elongated east-west, thus contrasting with a series of perpendicular parishes to its north and west. With the adjoining parishes this formed a large estate that is at least middle-Saxon or, perhaps, even Roman or Bronze age. From 1894 until it was abolished in 1936, North Ockendon formed a parish in the Orsett Rural District of Essex. The majority of its former area was used to enlarge the Cranham parish of Hornchurch Urban District and the remainder of the former parish, around 383 acres (1.55 km²), was used to form part of Thurrock Urban District in 1936. In 1965 Hornchurch Urban District was abolished and its former area, including North Ockendon, was transferred to Greater London and used to form the present-day London Borough of Havering; thus it became the only part of Greater London outside the M25 motorway.

North Ockendon is the location of Stubbers, a former stately home which was demolished in 1955 and the grounds of which is now used as an activity centre.^[3]

Elizabeth Kucinich, wife of the U.S. congressman and presidential candidate, was born in North Ockendon in 1977.

Geography

To the east is a small area of fenland, which extends into Bulphan and the rest is clays and Thames alluvials. The land is entirely 75 feet (23 m) below sea-level^{[citation needed]}. The field boundaries are wholly rectilinear. To the far north, beyond the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, it borders the villages of Great Warley, Little Warley and Childerditch in the borough of Brentwood, the settlements of West Horndon and Bulphan to the east and South Ockendon to the south which is in the borough and unitary authority of Thurrock. The parish church of St Mary Magdelene has a probably re-used Norman nave door on the south side of the nave.

Transport

The nearest railway stations are at Ockendon and Upminster.

References

1. ^ Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0901050679. 
2. ^ Vision of Britain - North Ockendon. Retrieved on 7 February 2010.
3. ^ History of Stubbers

External links

• Hidden London: North Ockendon