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{{Short description|Historical division of Essex, England}}
{{This article is about|the ancient hundred in Essex, England|the housing development which is named after the hundred|Chafford Hundred}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{infobox historic subdivision|
   |Name=              Chafford Hundred
   |HQ=                [[Chafford Heath]]
   |Status=            [[hundred (country subdivision)|hundred]]
   |Start=             Anglo-Saxon
   |End=               no administrative or legal role after 1886, but never formally abolished.
   |Replace=           various, see text
   |Image= Essex Hundreds 1830.png
   |image_caption=The Hundreds of Essex in 1830
   |PopulationFirst=    16,001<ref name=imperial>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=837520&word=NULL IGEW] John Marius Wilson: ''[[Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales]]'' (1870-72)</ref>  
   |PopulationFirstYear=1870  
   |PopulationLast=     23,839<ref name=bart>John Bartholomew, ''[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=1878590&word=NULL Gazetteer of the British Isles]'', (1887)</ref>
   |PopulationLastYear= 1887 
   |AreaFirst=          {{convert|35712|acre|km2}}  
   |AreaFirstYear=      1870  
   |AreaLast=           {{convert|34703|acre|km2}}   
   |AreaLastYear=       1887  
}}
'''Chafford''' was an ancient [[hundred (country subdivision)|hundred]] in the south west of the county of [[Essex]], [[England]].<ref name=vob_chafford>Vision of Britain - [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10024213 Chafford hundred] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181444/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10024213 |date=2007-09-30 }} ([http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10024213&c_id=10001043 historic map] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001043831/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10024213&c_id=10001043 |date=2007-10-01 }})</ref> 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.

==History==

Hundred meetings are thought to have taken place in [[Chafford Heath]]<ref name=british>History of the County of Essex: Volume 7, ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42822 Chafford hundred: Introduction]'', (1978)</ref> ({{gbmapping|TQ564836}}) in the southern part of the ecclesiastical parish of Upminster.

The hundred contained the parishes of [[Aveley]], [[Brentwood, Essex|Brentwood]], [[Childerditch]], [[Cranham]], [[Grays Thurrock]], [[Great Warley]], [[Little Warley]], [[North Ockendon]], [[Rainham, London|Rainham]], [[South Ockendon]], [[South Weald]], [[Stifford]], [[Upminster]], [[Wennington, London|Wennington]] and [[West Thurrock]].<ref name=map>British History Online - [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=42822&filename=fig15.gif&pubid=277 Map of Chafford Hundred c. 1845]</ref>

It bordered [[Ongar (hundred)|Ongar]] hundred to the north, [[Barstable (hundred)|Barstable]] hundred to the east and [[Royal Liberty of Havering|Havering]] liberty to the west. The [[River Thames]] formed a {{convert|7|mi|km|sing=on}} boundary with [[Kent]] to the south.<ref name=map/> The hundred covered a narrow area stretching {{convert|12|mi|km}} northwards from the river.<ref name=imperial/>

==Replacement==

The hundreds of England declined in administrative use because of the rise of various ''ad-hoc'' boards. By 1894 they were effectively replaced by a system of uniform local government districts, which were consolidated over time and finally replaced by the [[London boroughs]] (1965) and non-metropolitan districts (1974), further change occurred in 1998 when Thurrock became a unitary authority.

{| class="wikitable"
! Parish || District || Today
|-
|[[Aveley]] || [[Orsett Rural District]]  || [[Thurrock]]
|-
|[[Brentwood, Essex|Brentwood]] || [[Billericay Rural District]] || [[Brentwood (borough)|Brentwood]] 
|-
|[[Childerditch]] || Billericay Rural District  || Brentwood
|-
|[[Cranham]] || [[Romford Rural District]] || [[London Borough of Havering|Havering]]
|-
|[[Grays Thurrock]] || [[Grays Thurrock Urban District]] || Thurrock
|-
|[[Great Warley]] || Romford Rural District || Brentwood
|-
|[[Little Warley]] || Billericay Rural District || Brentwood
|-
|[[North Ockendon]] || Orsett Rural District  || Havering
|-
|[[Rainham, London|Rainham]] || Romford Rural District || Havering 
|-
|[[South Ockendon]] || Orsett Rural District || Thurrock
|-
|[[South Weald]] || Billericay Rural District || Brentwood
|-
|[[Stifford]] || Orsett Rural District || Thurrock
|-
|[[Upminster]] || Romford Rural District || Havering
|-
|[[Wennington, London|Wennington]] || Romford Rural District || Havering
|-
|[[West Thurrock]] || Orsett Rural District || Thurrock
|}

==See also==
*[[Hundreds of Essex]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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