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Essex Quiz

Published in Issue 77

County Histories began just over a hundred years ago. Known by the acronym VCH (Victor, Charlie, Hotel) to which monarch is the series dedicated?
Published in 1956, Volume 4 of the Essex edition covers the High Country History area and surrounding parishes in the Hundred. But in which Hundred do our parishes appear?
We might expect Greensted Church to be dedicated to St Edmund. But instead, to which saint is it dedicated?
A quote from Volume 4: “The factory of Piggott Bros & Co, tent and tarpaulin makers, is on the east side of the main road at Little End”. What was the building in Stanford Rivers formerly used as?
Which river forms the southern end of the parish of Stapleford Tawney?
What is the name of the mansion in Theydon Mount used in 1956 as a women’s prison?
Marden Ash is part of which parish?
In which churchyard is Reginald Armitage, otherwise Noel Gay, buried?
Until 1981 what were the two intermediate stops on the Central Line between Epping and Ongar?
The Essex Way is an 81 mile walk ending at Harwich High Lighthouse. But where does the walk begin?
The waymark signs along the route of the Essex Way show the county flower. Which red flower is that?
The Essex Skipper, The Drinker Moth, The Small Copper are or were the names of public houses built in Harlow New Town. What were these new pubs named after?
Wilkin and Son, Tiptree make preserves. What jam would I be eating labelled Little Scarlet?
Which major cycling event came through Epping High Street on 7 July 2014?
Which Essex Town has as its anagram Bored Town?

Source Notes:

(1) Victoria
(2) Ongar
(3) St Andrew
(4) Union Workhouse
(5) Roding
(6) Hill Hall
(7) High Ongar
(8) Stanford Rivers

(9) North Weald & Blake Hall
(10) Epping Station
(11) Poppy
(12) Butterflies
(13) Strawberry
(14) Tour De France
(15) Brentwood