Stapleford Tawney

Stapleford Tawney
Stapleford Tawney
	St Mary's Church, Stapleford Tawney
	Stapleford Tawney Location within Essex
Population	103
Civil parish	Stapleford Tawney ;
District	Epping Forest;
Shire county	Essex;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	EPPING
Postcode district	CM16
Post town	ROMFORD
Postcode district	RM4
Dialling code	01992
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Brentwood & Ongar;
	List of places UK England Essex 51°40′00″N 0°10′18″E / 51.666667°N 0.171667°E

Stapleford Tawney is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. Stapleford Tawney is approximately 4 miles (6 km) west-southwest from Chipping Ongar and 14 miles (23 km) southwest from the county town of Chelmsford.

History

Historically Stapleford Tawney was included in the hundred of Ongar. It formed part of the Ongar Rural District Council from 1894 until that authority was absorbed into Epping and Ongar Rural District Council in 1955. Following local government reorganisation in 1974 it became part of Epping Forest District.

Electricity was first connected to the parish in 1932 and most of the parish was supplied with water by the Herts and Essex Waterworks Co. in 1949.^[3]

Population

The parish was more populous in the past than at present. The peak was in the Victorian period. ^{[citation needed]}

Historic population
Year	Population
1801	196 ^[3]
1841	350 ^[3]
1951	153 ^[3]
2001	103 ^[4]

The parish had a population of 103 in 2001, making it the least populated parish in the district.^[4] The arithmetic population density is 15.4 per km².

Geography

The parish is long and narrow, extending roughly 3 miles (5 km) from north to south but is generally only about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide for much of its length. Its southern boundary is formed by the River Roding, while a stream flowing into it forms much of the parish's western boundary. The land rises quite steeply from below 30 metres where the Roding flows into Theydon Mount to above 90 metres in the extreme north, much of the parish being above the 60 metre contour.^[3] The parish covers an area of 670 hectares.

There is no strong focus of settlement in the parish except for the parish Church of St Mary on Tawney Lane which is within a small linear group of houses and farms. At the north of the parish, 2 miles (3 km) from the parish church, are the hamlets of Colliers Hatch and Tawney Common.

Individual farms and houses are scattered throughout the parish. Land use is mostly agricultural. The M25 motorway cuts through the southern tip of the parish.