Anyone reccomend a link to an Map of Essex Parishes

[Douglas P]

Glad it helped. I found a couple of the links from this site (which is mainly about Kelvedon Hatch):

http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/essext07.html

Another site which mentions Theydon Bois is:

http://essexpub.net/TheydonBois/theydonbois.htm

[Siouxzie]

Thanks Douglas

Loved the British History Online link

Siouxzie

[Indaloman]

just put in a search on 'old maps essex' and you should get some good hits, I have done it with Hants. By the way Epping is no where near the other places you mention. I am an Essex Boy and used to cycle to Epping Forest  as a kid, Epping Forest Old Oak PH is the birthplace of speedway in UK and the orginal track can still be made out. It also has a metal tank out side the entrance with a notice say please do not tease the otters, when you pull on the chain two otters appear (an otter is an essex word for a jug), useless info by interesting

[Arquebus]

I have an image of an Essex map 1787. It has all the old spellings of town and village names. It is a fairly good resolution and has a file size about 1.4MB.

I can't recall where I got it from but I guess there could be some sort of copyright issue if I post it here.

I don't mind sending it by email to anyone that wants it......just ask.

Al.

[Piperatthegates]

I Know that a map is nice to see the places but have you thought about a program called "parish locator". I don't know where I got it from, but it's freeware. You just punch in the name of a parish and then set a circumference in miles etc and it puts them all into perspective IE X is 9 Miles West of Y. what I have found handy is it gets away from being countycentric (a word I just made up  ) and can lead you into unexplored avenues.

Not as pretty, but very handy as you can centre it on your known reference point then using it spread out to surrounding parishes.

As I say I don't know where I got it from, but D M Bennet who wrote it should be well and truly congratulated for creating such a usefull tool for research.

Got luck in in all your endeavors