Harlow Hundred 1848 Whites Directory
HARLOW HUNDRED,
Or, as it is sometimes called, the Half Hundred of Harlow, is of small extent, being only eleven miles in length, from south to north, and from 3 to 6 miles in breadth ; bounded, on the west, by the river Stort, which separates it from Hertfordshire ; on the north, by Uttlesford Hundred ; on the east, by Dunmow and Ongar Hundreds; and on the south, by Waltham Hundred. It is watered by several rivulets flowing westward to the Stort, and is traversed on its western border by the North Eastern Railway, from Bishop Stortford to Hoddeston, but these towns are in Hertfordshire. It has its name from its small market town, Harlow, and is in the Epping Polling and Police District, and in the north-west corner of the Southern Parliamentary Division of Essex. It forms the Deanery of Harlow, in the Diocese of Ro chester and Archdeaconry of Essex. The following enumeration of its eleven parishes, shews their territorial extent, their population in 1841.
PARISHES. Acres. Population in 1841.
Hallingbury Great 2639 690
Hallingbury Little 1610 497
Harlow parish 4009 2315
Hatfield Broad Oak parish 8619 1968
Latton parish 1382 303
Matching parish 2384 687
Netteswell parish. 1521 336
Parndon Great parish 2201 417
Parndon Little parish 522 85
Roydon (part of) 1691 663
Sheering parish 1594 544
TOTAL 28,662 8505
*Roydon parish is partly in Waltham Hundred.
High Constable, Mr. Parris, of Sawbridgeworth.
UNIONS :-Great and Little Hallingbury are in Bishop Stortford Union, which is mostly in Hertfordshire ; Hatfield Broad Oak is in Dunmow Union ;
and the other parishes are in Epping Union .