Registration Districts in Essex

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS IN ESSEX

The list below shows the civil registration districts in Essex since 1837. The same districts were used to compile the census returns for the years 1851 to 1911.

For the purposes of these pages, "Essex " refers to:

the ancient county of Essex (1837-89)
the administrative county of Essex (1889-1974), with the county boroughs of East Ham (1915-65), Southend on Sea (from 1914), and West Ham (until 1965).
the non-metropolitan county of Essex (from 1974), with the unitary authorities of Southend on Sea and Thurrock (from 1998).

Click on a district name in the table below to see the places and dates covered, or see the Index of Place Names for the whole of England and Wales.

Registration District	Registration County	From	To	Comments
Basildon	Essex	1974	1974	Created 1.4.1974 out of Brentwood and Thurrock registration districts. Abolished 1.7.1974 (to become part of Brentwood registration district.
Billericay	Essex	1837	1939	Abolished 1.7.1939 to become part of Brentwood and Chelmsford registration districts.
Bishops Stortford	Hertfordshire	1837	1939	Partly in Essex until 1.10.1939.
Braintree	Essex	1837	2010	Abolished 1.2.2010 to become part of Essex registration district.
Brentwood	Essex	1939	2010	Created 1.7.1939 out of Billericay, Romford, Orsett, and Chelmsford registration districts. Abolished 1.2.2010 to become part of Essex registration district.
Castle Point & Rochford	Essex	1998	2010	Created 1.4.1998 out of Southend on Sea registration district. Abolished 1.2.2010 to become part of Essex registration district.
Chelmsford	Essex	1837	2010	Abolished 1.2.2010 to become part of Essex registration district.
Colchester	Essex	1837	2010	Abolished 1.2.2010 to become part of Essex registration district.
Dunmow	Essex	1837	1967	Abolished 1.1.1968 to become part of Chelmsford registration district.
East Ham	Essex	1935	1965	Created 1.10.1935 out of West Ham registration district. Transferred to the county of Greater London on 1.4.1965.
Edmonton	Essex	1837	1965	Abolished 1.4.1965 to become parts of Enfield and Haringey registration districts.
Epping	Essex	1837	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 to become part of Epping Forest, Brentwood, and Harlow registration districts.
Epping Forest	Essex	1974	2010	Created 1.4.1974 out of Epping registration district. Abolished 1.2.2010 to become part of Essex registration district.
Essex	Essex	2010		Created 1.2.2010 from Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point & Rochford, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow, and Uttlesford registration districts.
Essex South Western	Essex	1935	1965	Created 1.10.1935 out of West Ham registration district. Abolished 1.4.1965 to become part of Waltham Forest and Redbridge registration districts.
Halstead	Essex	1837	1972	Abolished 1.11.1972 to become part of Braintree registration district.
Harlow	Essex	1974	2010	Created 1.4.1974 out of Epping registration district. Abolished 1.2.2010 to become part of Essex registration district.
Harwich	Essex	1939	1957	Created 1.7.1939 out of Tendring registration district. Abolished 1.10.1957 to become part of Colchester registration district.
Ilford	Essex	1939	1965	Created 1.7.1939 out of Romford registration district. Abolished 1.4.1965 to become part of Barking, East Ham and Redbridge registration districts.
Lexden	Essex	1837	1939	Abolished 1.7.1939 to become part of Colchester and Braintree registration districts.
Linton	Cambridgeshire	1837	1935	Partly in Essex until 1.4.1935.
Maldon	Essex	1837	1972	Abolished 1.11.1972 to become part of Chelmsford registration district.
Maldon	Essex	1974	1974	Created 1.4.1974 out of Chelmsford registration district. Abolished 1.7.1974 to become part of Chelmsford registration district.
Ongar	Essex	1837	1939	Abolished 1.7.1939 to become part of Epping registration district.
Orsett	Essex	1837	1939	Abolished 1.7.1939 to become part of Thurrock, Brentwood,and Romford registration districts.
Risbridge	Suffolk	1837	1938	Partly in Essex until 1.7.1938.
Rochford	Essex	1837	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 to become part of Southend on Sea registration district.
Romford	Essex	1837	1965	Abolished 1.4.1965 to become part of Havering, Barking, and Redbridge registration districts.
Royston	Hertfordshire	1837	1895	Partly in Essex until 30.9.1895
Saffron Walden	Essex	1837	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 to become part of Uttlesford registration district.
Southend on Sea	Essex	1939		Created 1.7.1939 out of Rochford registration district.
Sudbury	Suffolk	1837	1938	Partly in Essex until 1.7.1938.
Tendring	Essex	1837	1939	Abolished 1.7.1939 to become part of Colchester and Harwich registration districts.
Thurrock	Essex	1939		Created 1.7.1939 out of Orsett and Rochford registration districts.
Uttlesford	Essex	1974	2010	Created 1.4.1974 out of Saffron Walden and Chelmsford registration districts. Abolished 1.2.2010 to become part of Essex registration district.
West Ham	Essex	1837	1965	Transferred to the county of Greater London on 1.4.1965.
Witham	Essex	1837	1880	Abolished 1.7.1880 to become part of Braintree, Lexden, and Maldon registration districts.

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