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Rivenhall is a village and civil parish near Witham in the Braintree district of Essex, England. As well as the small village of Rivenhall itself, the parish also includes Rivenhall End and surrounding rural areas. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 757.
Key Information
It has a primary school called Rivenhall Church of England School. For transport there is the busy A12 nearby and Witham railway station.
History
[edit]A Roman villa existed at Rivenhall. Its site was subsequently used for an Anglo-Saxon hall and adjoining parish church.[2][3] A timber church is known to have existed by the 10th century; it was rebuilt in stone in the late 10th century or early 11th century. The church, dedicated to St Mary and All Saints, is now a Grade I listed building.[4]
Rivenhall had an airfield during the Second World War called RAF Rivenhall. It opened in 1943 and closed after the war in 1946.[5]
Governance
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There are three tiers of local government covering Rivenhall, at parish, district, and county level: Rivenhall Parish Council, Braintree District Council, and Essex County Council. The parish council meets at both Rivenhall Village Hall and at the Henry Dixon Hall at Rivenhall End.[6]
Rivenhall was an ancient parish in the Witham hundred of Essex.[7] The parish historically included Silver End, which was a small hamlet until the 1920s when a model village was built there around the Crittall Windows factory.[8]
In 1933 Rivenhall parish was abolished and its area was absorbed into the urban district of Witham.[9] Witham Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, when the area became part of the new Braintree district.[10][11] The area of the pre-1974 urban district became unparished as a result of the 1974 reforms. Three new civil parishes covering the area of the old urban district were subsequently created in 1982: Witham, Rivenhall, and Silver End. The new parish created in 1982 is therefore smaller than the pre-1933 parish, with Silver End being a separate parish.[12][13]
References
[edit]- ^ "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
- ^ Historic England. "Roman villa, Anglo-Saxon hall, cemetery and church site, around the north and east of St Mary and All Saints Church (1013831)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Rackham, Oliver (1976). Trees and Woodland in The British Landscape. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-4746-1404-7. Page 42
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary and All Saints (Grade I) (1169594)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Rivenhall". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Meeting Agenda 2025". Rivenhall Parish Council. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Rivenhall Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ BBC (22 July 2009). "Silver End - a window on the past". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Rivenhall Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 1972/2039, retrieved 31 May 2023
- ^ "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 1973/551, retrieved 31 May 2023
- ^ "The Braintree (Parishes) Order 1981" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. The National Archives. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
- ^ "Braintree Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
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