Birth Deaths and Marriages were required to be registered from 1837. The country was split up into a number of registration districts of which Chipping Ongar was one. Created on the 1st July 1837.
Sub-districts: Bobbingworth, and Chipping Ongar. It covered the following parishes.
Abbess Roding, Beauchamp Roding, Berners Roding, Blackmore, Bobbingworth, Chipping Ongar, Doddinghurst, Fyfield, Greenstead, High Laver, High Ongar, Kelvedon Hatch, Lambourne, Little Laver, Moreton, Navestock, Norton Mandeville, Shelley, Shellow Bowells, Stanford Rivers, Stapleford Abbots, Stapleford Tawney, Stondon Massey, Theydon Mount, Willingale Doe, and Willingale Spain.