was an ancient ; with its name reused for the modern housing development of
Chafford Hundred . Its former area now corresponds to part of the
London Borough Of Havering in Greater London and parts of the districts of Brentwood and Thurrock in Essex.
Hundred meetings are thought to have taken place at
Chafford Heath History of the County of Essex: Volume 7, ''
Chafford hundred: Introduction '', (1978) (). In what is now Bramble Lane, South Ockendon.
The hundred contained the parishes of
Aveley ,
Brentwood ,
Childerditch ,
Cranham ,
Grays Thurrock ,
Great Warley ,
Little Warley ,
North Ockendon ,
Rainham ,
South Ockendon ,
South Weald ,
Stifford ,
Upminster ,
Wennington and
West Thurrock .British History Online -
Map of Chafford Hundred c. 1845
It bordered
Ongar hundred to the north,
Barstable hundred to the east and
Havering liberty to the west. The
River Thames formed a 7 mile boundary with
Kent to the south. The hundred covered a narrow area stretching 12 miles northwards from the river.
The hundreds of England declined in administrative use because of the rise of various ''ad-hoc'' boards. By 1894 they were effectively replaced by a system of uniform local government districts, which were consolidated over time and finally replaced by the
London Boroughs (1965) and non-metropolitan districts (1974), further change occurred in 1998 when Thurrock became a unitary authority.
