The Project has the aim to record names of roads, streets, fields, farms, houses, woods, inns, rivers, streams, mills, owners and tenants from old documents and maps, dating from current Ordnance Surveys, through 19th century tithe maps, estate maps, medieval, Anglo-Saxon and (occasionally) Roman documents, parish by parish.
To explore local areas in each parish where there are current or earlier names which suggest their history, industrial or agricultural use (milling, cloth making) or archaeological remains (such as former buildings and burial mounds), to see if any evidence still exists.
And to make available this information to any person or group who wish to use it for further research into history, archaeology, genealogy, linguistics, philology or related subjects.
The recording is done by volunteers, who may be individuals, groups, or local societies. The information they gather will be put onto a database which will be made available for research.
If you are interest in recording, working with maps and if you have computer skills, further information is available from the Essex Record Office.