As all historians know, Essex Record Office at Chelmsford is a rich mine of information, much of which can also be seen on microfilm at their Saffron Walden office. Every year the ERO issues a list of new acquisitions, but it is unlikely these would be microfilmed for a long time, and you would need to visit the ERO to see them. Here are some of the items recently added to Uttlesford village collections – for details take a look at the SEAX website on www.essexcc.gov.uk The Accessions updates can be obtained, free of charge, in an electronic format by emailing deborah.peers@essexcc.gov.uk with ‘New Accessions’ in the subject box.

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ERO ACCESSIONS LIST 2005 - 6

Aythorpe Roding burial register 1813-1992, graveyard plan at front, banns register 1847-1989 service register 1945-1993 (A11834: D/P 63 addl.)

Aythorpe Roding: etching of school (A11730)

Broxted: photograph of windmill, 1926-1932 (A11663: D/DU 2231)

Chrishall Parish Council: minutes, 1894-1997, accounts, 1950-1990, Annual Parochial meeting minutes, 1894-2000, deeds of village hall, 1951-1978, and re lease of cricket ground, 1978-1992 (A11683: D/J 124)

Chrishall Society: minutes and accounts, 1977-1983 (A11683: D/Z 473)

Felsted baptism register 1881-1937, marriage registers 1837-1982, burial register 1891-1960, banns register 1903-1934; service registers 1927-1988; church clerk's fees book 1874-1910; papers re Cricks Green school and schoolhouse 1932-1946; conveyance of vicarage 1947, faculties 1920, 1938, 1951, tithe redemption certificates 1908-1927, altered tithe apportionments 1900-1934, minutes of PCC, Standing Committee and Annual Parochial Church meeting 1970-1992; plans of church c.1876 (A11953: D/P 99 addl.)

Felsted Sparlings and Hawkins Farms deeds (A11882: D/DU 1516 addl.)

Felsted United Reformed Church: church book, 1832-1846, 1860-1879, 1903-1955, including burial register 1833-1870 and list of members, 1835-1844 (A11652: D/NC 88 addl.)

Freshwell Petty Sessions depositions and minutes relating mainly to settlement 1803-1822, (A11833 P/F addl.)

Great Dunmow baptism register 1890-1964, marriage registers 1878-1983, burial registers 1855-1989, banns register 1988-1998, service registers 1888-1991 (gaps); Philpot End Mission Hall accounts 1971-1972 (A11830: D/P 11 addl.)

Great Dunmow Hasler Place deeds, 86-104 High Street, 1929-1989 (A11712: D/DU 2243)

Great Dunmow Town Council Minutes 1996-1997 (A12017: D/J 88 addl.); minutes, 1993-1996 (A11794: D/J 88 addl.)

Great Easton: marriage and curates' licences, 1761-1945, settlement papers, 1678-1805, paupers' inventories, 1699-1732, parish census, 1801, miscellaneous papers, 1695-1823 (A11800: D/P 232 addl.)

Great Sampford Black Bull Inn deeds, 1686-1984 (A11702: D/DU 2240), 1833-1870 (A11753: D/DU 1938 addl.)

Hadstock Women's Institute record of meetings 1955-2003; committee minutes 1955-2002 (6 vols); account books 1993-2003; financial reports 1998-2003 (A12011: D/Z 259 addl.)

Hatfield Broad Oak: negatives of play staged by children of St. Mary's Church of England Primary School, c.1962, photographs of 'The White Hart', Greenhill, c.1971 (A11734: D/DU 1953 addl.)

Hempstead oral history recordings 2003-2006 (Acc. SA407)

Hempstead Village Society: scrapbook, 1972 (A11791: D/Z 490)

Henham deed of gift 1907 (A12007 D/J 134); Henleys, A12003: D/DU 2324)

Henham villagers’ stories recorded by Joyce Winmill 1973-1977 (Acc. SA401)

Henham: photographs taken by R.C. Budge, 1926-1932 (A11663: D/DU 2231))

Leaden Roding registers of baptisms 1813-2004, marriages 1838-1939, burials 1813-1992, and banns 1826-2005  (A11885: D/P 74 addl.)

Leaden Roding: minutes of PCC and Annual Parochial Church meeting, 1950-1992, Sunday School register, 1965-1971, correspondence, papers etc. 1944-1987 1987 (A11746: D/P 74 addl.)

Lindsell service registers1921-1947, 1975-1992 (A11905: D/P 110 addl.)

Lindsell: registers of marriages, 1837-1991, burials, 1813-2003, services, 1954-1975, PCC minutes, 1938-1979, terrier and inventories, 1914 -1976, faculties etc., 1927-1948 (A11757: D/P 110 addl.)

Little Easton Parish Council minutes 1947-1997, accounts 1927-1998  (A11960: D/J 97)

Little Easton pew seating plan 1745 (A11881: D/P 180 addl.)

Littlebury Green (joined with Wendens Ambo November 2004) Women's Institute committee minutes 1994-2002; committee & meetings minutes 1997-2003 (A12011: D/Z 259 addl.)

Manuden Manuden School “Time Passed” 1979 (Acc. SA397); recordings relating to Manuden (Acc. SA416)

Margaret Roding service register 1977-1998, PCC minutes 1997-1998, PCC account book 1964-1990, Margaret Roding Church School account book including D'Oyley Bentley Trust 1939-1963, managers' minutes 1903-1948 (A11831: D/P 309 addl.)

Newport altered tithe apportionment 1864 (A11886: D/P 15 addl.)

Quendon Park Estate  deeds 1980, 1982 (A11806: A/MW)

Saffron Walden - Mullucks Wells, estate agents: sale catalogues for properties in Ford End, Felsted, Great Dunmow and Bocking, 2004-2005 (A11646: D/F 278)

Saffron Walden 30 High Street deeds, 1711-1994 (A11695: D/DU 2238), cemetery and land in Radwinter Road, 1855-1979 (A11707: D/XUt addl.).

Saffron Walden and District Music Club minutes 1944-2001, accounts 1944-1979 (A11966: D/Z 502)

Saffron Walden Badminton Club: minutes, 1931-1988, lists of members, 1983-1986, newscuttings, accounts, 1964, invoices and receipts (A11724: D/Z 480)

Saffron Walden Constituency Labour Party Women's Section: quotes from bands for performance, 1952 (A11755: D/DU 2258)

Saffron Walden Constituency Labour Party: minutes of General and Executive Committees, 1951-1958, 1961-1970, 1981-1997,  (A11810: D/Z 489)

Saffron Walden County High School: admission registers, 1950-1989, summary of attendance registers, 1963-1969, log books, 1950-1986, punishment books, 1956-1983, other records (A11723: E/E 200)

Saffron Walden Oxfam branch minutes and papers 1961-1991 (A11965: D/Z 501)

Saffron Walden, White Hart deeds, 1684, 1697, 1827 (A11992: D/DU 2320), King Street, copyhold of manor of Chipping Walden, 1755-1890 (A11954: D/DU 2308); Cucking Stool End, 1811 (A12044 : D/DU 2337)

Saffron Walden: Jennings auctioneers, estate agents etc.: letters and papers re sales, valuations, lettings, claims for damage etc., 1912-1943, letters and papers re Chesterford Park estate, 1905, 1949-1957, agreements and memoranda to hire property, 1911, 1919, 1929-1968, sale catalogues, 1898-1959, correspondence with Woolwich Equitable Building Society, 1947-1951, letters and papers re Saffron Walden and District Property Owners' Association, 1955-1963, deeds to 13 King Street, Saffron Walden, 1852-1943, other records, 1900-1960, letters, papers and files, re sales, valuations, lettings, claims for damage etc. (A11694, A11727: D/F 261 addl.)

Saffron Walden: Jennings auctioneers, estate agents letters and papers relating mainly to Debden Hall estate, Debden 1914-1916, 1941-1947 (A11970: D/F 261 addl.)

Stebbing baptism register 1842-2005 (A11952: D/P 86 addl.)

Stebbing marriage register, 1987-1994 (A11756: D/P 86 addl.)

Stebbing sound recording: experiences of ARP and Police Messenger in WWII (Acc. SA356)

Stebbing URC: Church Meeting minute books 1964-1995; free will offering account book 1961-1983; account books 1958-82; account books and papers re sale of church and two cottages 1990s (A11955: D/NC 43 addl.)

Stebbing Women’s Institute: minutes of committee, 1978-2001 and monthly meetings, 1979-2001, financial records (A11680: D/Z 259 addl.)

Takeley: colour slides of Cobb's Lane and Bamber's Green, 1975-1976 (A11741: D/DU 1953 addl.)

Takeley1807 deeds (A11920)

Thaxted British School minute books 1849-1975, cash books 1882-1953 (A11955: D/NC 34 addl.)

Thaxted United Reformed Church, Church Record Book with history of Church from 1705, minutes 1849-1937 (incomplete); burials 1850-1994, marriages 1850-1941 and baptisms 1844-1956 ; minute books of Church and Elders Meetings 1917-82, Church Trustees' minute book, 1967-79; Sunday School teachers' minute book 1959-67; Church Guild minute books 1941-2, 1951-55; Thaxted Old Independent Meeting minute book 1917-67 and list of members 1917; "A short history of the Thaxted United Reformed Church" by Eric S Earl (A11955: D/NC 34 addl.)

Thaxted: Manors of Thaxted, Horham and Spencers Fee Rental 1520-1523 (A11888: D/DU 2291)

Uttlesford Local History Recorders newsletters 2005 (A11857, A11995: D/Z 344 addl.); reports, 2003-2004 and accounts, 2003 (A11793: D/Z 344 addl.)

White Roding: PCC minutes, 1964-2000, account books, 1925-1977 and organ fund subscription book (A11746: D/P 304 addl.)

White Roding: photograph of windmill, 1926-1932 (A11663: D/DU 2231)

Wimbish - Wiseman family draft wills 1859; 1888 (A11930: D/DU 2301)