High Country History Group
HCHG covering the parishes of Greensted, Stanford Rivers, Stapleford Tawney and Theydon Mount in Essex, England.
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2000
Issue 1
Contents:
Village Building in the High Country
A Pictorial Review of the Lavers
“Chapels in Essex” – by Rosalind Kaye
An Acting Committee
The Jubilee at Stanford Rivers
Forthcoming Events
A Policeman’s Lot
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Issue 1
March
Issue 2
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“A Policeman’s Lot – Policing in Victorian Essex” by Martyn Lockwood
“A Historical Walk around Tawney and Mount” by Anne Padfield
Dating Hedges with Anne Brooks
A notable rector of Stanford Rivers
Forthcoming Events for Your Diary
Rainbird?
The Ongar Union Workhouse
Book Review – “All Are Welcome”
Book Review – “ESSEX FARMING 1900-2000” by Peter Worrell
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Issue 2
July
Issue 3
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Chairman’s Letter
Project?
Copped Hall
For Your Diary
Oak Cottage, Clatterford End
William Nayler
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Issue 3
October
2001
Issue 4
Contents:
Local Elizabethan Wills
Photographing the High Country
The Bigamous Baronet – A scandal at Hill Hall
The Parish School
QUIZ – 25 Questions to test your knowledge of the High Country
Internet
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Issue 4
January
This was electroniclally available due to lockdown
Issue 5
Contents:
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
“Dick Turpin – Fact or Fiction”
Toot Hill Windmill – a disaster revisited
ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ
Hatfield Broad Oak
The Past
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Issue 5
April
Issue 7
Contents:
Visit to Aythorpe Roding Windmill
Talk on Humphry Repton
The Greensted Tithe Dispute
The Dorchester Labourers in Greensted
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Issue 7
November
2002
Issue 8
Contents:
Chairman’s Letter
Annual General Meeting – “The 1950’s”
War Memorials
Notes on Overseer’s Book of Accounts for 17723-1823 for Stapleford Tawney
Snippets From The Archives
Sir Charles CUNLIFFE SMITH
1901 Census Online at the Family Records Centre
Heritage Information & Records
In the Footsteps of Marconi
North Weald Memorial Museum
Sir Thomas Smythe (1513-1577)
The Essex Coat of Arms
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Issue 8
January
Issue 9
Contents:
Annual General Meeting
Epping Forest District Council Coat of Arms
Queen Victorias’s Golden Jubilee 1887
A Symbolic Alliance Between Local Recusants?
A Deodnad in the Hundred of Ongar . . . ?
Situation Vacant – Honorary Treasurer
The Bell House Estate, Stanford Rivers
On Matters Ecclesiastical!
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Issue 9
May
Issue 10
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Issue 10
July
Issue 11
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Romans About
A Local Forest Inquisition
Aircraft Accident
Archives on Line
A Mystery!
Ongar Union Workhouse
Memorial to Edward, Lord Hay
Obituary – Ken Feakes
A SHORT HISTORY OF COPPED HALL
A Walk to Norton Mandeville from High Ongar
Protest Against thr Rural Constabulary 1841
A Pauper Letter
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Issue 11
October
2003
Issue 12
Contents:
Rob Brooks
MORNING OR AFTERNOON MEETINGS?
The Desecration of Essex
The Churches Conservation Trust
NOEL GAY (1898 – 1954)
White’s History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex ~ 1848
Unlocking Essex’s Past
The Tithe Commutation Awards – Part 1
Donation to Victoria County History of Essex
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Issue 12
February
Issue 13
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HILL HALL
Willow Cottage, Curtis Mill Green
To The Freeholders of the County of Essex
Theydon Mount School
The Baker of Great Barfield
Essex Hymn Writers (Pt 1)
John Locke (1632-1704) at Otes, High Laver
Rare Garland Discovered in Theydon Mount Church
1841 Census – Stanford Rivers
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Issue 13
July
Issue 14
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Medieval Deer-Parks
The Epping Union Workhousue
Visit to The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey
Chris Morris, A Landworker’s Struggle: an Epping Autobiography 1913-1990
Chelmsford Chronicle, 20 March, 1840 – Ongar Union
Chelmsford Chronicle. 6 April 1832 – YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY
Chelmsford Chronicle, 14th March 1834 – Sheep Stealing
Chelmsford Chronicle. October 24th 1834 – ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS
Chelmsford Chronicle. December 22ND 1834 ONGAR ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROSECUTION OF OFFENDERS
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Issue 14
October
2004
Issue 15
Contents:
Pre-History and Glacial Erratics
The Church in Essex
John Locke at Madingley Hall
History and Archives Under Threat
Merit Badge
BOOK REVIEWS – The Monumental Brasses of Essex
Book Review – Field Systems in Essex
The Churches of Great Bardfield and Stebbing
Chelmsford Chronicle. June 3rd 1836 – Stanford Rivers
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Issue 15
February
Issue 16
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Annual General Meeting 2004
Bin Ends!
Mashams
George Eland – Historian of the Courts of Great Canfield
Official Opening of the Stanford Rivers Fountain on the Occasion of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee
Stapleford Tawney Airfield before WWII
The Story of Welford & Sons, Ltd.
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May
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May
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August
2005
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January
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January
Issue 19
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Annual General Meeting 2005
An Airfield at Fyfield
The Reverend Capel Cure
Mr Edwards
The Honeypot Killers
The Rabbit in the Medieval Economy
Lambourne End
Essex Wills
Essex Hymn Writers Part II
Forthcoming Events
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Issue 19
May
2022
Issue 6
Contents:
Firstly I must apologise
The Congregational Chapel,Stanford Rivers
Humphrey Repton (1752-1818)
The Essex Record Office
POST MILLS
St Mary’s church, Hatfield Broad Oak.
The Ongar Hundred Workhouse
Visit of Queen Mary
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May
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Issue 45
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Willingale Walk
The Draper’s Corner Oak
Charity
The Shipwreck of Greensted’s Stained Glass
Cardinall’s Musick
William Pittam
The Jubilee at Stanford Rivers
The Overseers’ Book of Stapleford Tawney
Cricket at Stapleford Tawney
Death of Sir William Bowyer Smijth, Bart
Some C16th Stanford Rivers Wills
Kelly’s Directory of Essex 1933 – Theydon Mount
From the Papers
Essex Records Office
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Issue 50
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An Appeal for Information
Anglo-Scotish Migration Database
Attack on a Constable
101 Uses of a Church Porch: Stanford Rivers South Porch use for “habitacion” in 1600
Ongar Through The Centuries. 40 Little Known Facts: a booklet just published by the Ongar Millennium History Society
Greenstead and the Course of St. Edmund’s Translation
The Diary of Anna Reeve of Stondon Massey, 1888
Hill Hall and Copt Hall
In Memoriam. Lewis Newcomen Prance
Harriet Archer-Houblon: born 1812, Coopersale House, Theydon Garnon
Coopersale: taken from Kelly’s Directory 1933
Programme of Events 2014
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Issue 51
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Coopersale House, Theydon Garnon – an enigma
Transportation reprived (of Samuel James of Theydon Garnon, 1797)
Boxing Match at Ongar
Greensted Church and James Barlow, an historical record of his life
Mad Dog
Palaeography
Greenstead Church by Henry Laver F.S.A
A View of Stanford Rivers 1866
Obituary. Sir Richard Smijth, Rector of Stapleford Tawney with Theydon Mount, 1837
Farming in Stapleford Tawney 1902
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Issue 52
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Anniversaries
Unhealthy Occupation
Centenary of Chelmsford Diocese (1914 – 2014)
Dedication of Church at Theydon Mount
William Sworder of Stapleford Tawney
Inquest of the body of William Reed, 1788
Hue and Cry: Stanford Rivers Imprisonment for Fowl Stealing, 1897
The Queen’s Jubilee and the Woes of Stanford Rivers
Opening of a Jubilee Fountain at Stanford Rivers, 1898
The Pilgrims Way: a reference to St Edmund
Place Names Quiz (answers)
St Michael’s Church Theydon Mount 400th Anniversary Weekend, advertisement
Parliamentary and Parochial Electors for Stapleford Tawney, 1914
Dr. Livingstone I Presume!
The Historical Register for 1738
That’s My Seat – Anne Archer of Theydon Garnon
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Issue 53
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Essex Place Names. A review of the recent talk.
The Great Fire, Stanford Hall, 22 September 1907
Cowman to Major: the story of Major James William Joseph Millar, D.S.O., D.C.M.
James Ford, a Forgotten Essex Antiquity (1779-1850)
Great War Story
World War One Films: David Welford, our treasurer and film addict, reviews the history of films factual and otherwise relating to the Great War.
Paganism, early Christianity and Beauchamp Roding church
Ongar Radio Station – North Weald (Part 1)
Programme 2013/2014
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Issue 54
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Mr Charles Edward Hunter
Wills to 1720 Online at Essex Ancestors
Theydon Mount: Quatercentenary
Ongar Radio Station – North Weald 1939-85 (part 2)
A tribute to Doris Messinger 1918-2014
Stanford Rivers and John Stuart, Viscount Mount Stuart
Richard Beadon, Rector of St Margaret’s Stanford Rivers
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Issue 55
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Law and Order
Benefactors to the Poor of Stapleford Tawney
Fire at the Blue Boar, Abridge
Theydon Mount Wills during the reign of King James I (1603 – 1625)
Essex Quarter Sessions Order Book (1652 – 1661)
Rector in Court Scene
Theydon Mount Constable
What the Papers Say (1945 – 1955)
Memories of Theydon Mount
Tragedy at Theydon Bois 1940
The Essex Great War Archive Project
Notable Anniversaries in 2015
Programme for 2015
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Issue 56
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Ongar’s First War Memorial
Stanford Rivers Vestry Minutes – 2nd October 1817
Christmas in the Trenches
Royal Visit to Greensted Church
Insolvent Debtor
The Petre’s of Stanford Rivers
Leverton Charities, Waltham Abbey. A manuscript volume in private hands
Theydon Mount Wills: Family Connections using Wills preserved during the reign of James I (1603-1625)
The 1831 Census for Stapleford Tawney
Vestry Order Book for Stapleford Tawney (commenced 1824)
In The News
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Issue 57
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John Carey map of North Weald, c.1790
Leverton Charities, Waltham Abbey
Ongar and District Cottage Hospital, 1928-1939
A Guide to St Martin’s Church, Ongar
More about the Petres of Stanford Rivers
First World War Trunk returns to North Weald Station
Private Victor Albert Burton
Never Mind The Dovecotes
Epping Workhouse and the case of Mary Ann Reid
From the Greensted Registers
World War II: If the Invader Comes
Mother and Son: Elizabeth Blount and Henry Fitzroy, born Blackmore
From the Papers
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Issue 58
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Ogborne’s History of Theydon Bois and Theydon Mount 1817
White Bear Public House, Stanford Rivers
Essex Excavations: The Fenwick Treasure found at Williams and Griffin, High Street Colchester, and the mansion at Marks Hall
16th Century Greensted Wills
Craven Ord, FRS, FSA, of Greenstead Hall, Antiquary and Brass Rubber
News In Brief
National Library of Scotland maps
Essex Witch Trials
Programme for 2016
Essex History Group
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Issue 59
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Issue 60
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The sad story of Mr Mikkish
World War II Airfields in Essex
The Token Coinage of Essex in the Seventeenth Century
Zeppelins Over Essex: Sources for Talk
Richard Mulcaster, Rector of Stanford Rivers 1598
The Green Man Public House, Toot Hill
Hill Hall, Theydon Mount – a Haunting!
The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
The Essex History Group Programme
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Issue 61
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Green Man Public House, Toot Hill – an update
Verdun Oaks
Toot Hill Windmill
Memorials against the Police
Threatened Closures of Stapleford Tawney and Theydon Mount Schools in 1911
Extensive Fire at Greensted
St James Church, Matrden Ash, Ongar
Programme for 2016
The Post Office Rifles at Ongar
Amelius Mark Richard, 1st Baron Lambourne (1847-1928)
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Issue 63
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Anniversaries in 2017
Mrs Charles Hunter, Hill Hall
Bygone Days
An Eccentric and his Deserted Mansion
The Mole Trap Public House, Stapleford Tawney
Listed Buildings in the High Country, Stanford Rivers – Part 1
Ex-Inspector Weeden Dies
General Election Barometer
Sir Hubert Ashton
The Ongar Hundred
Stondon Massey: High Country Strays in Stondon Massey Parish Register
Book Review
Programme for 2017
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