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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Woodford Bridge like this:
WOODFORD-BRIDGE, a chapelry, with a village, in Woodford-St. Mary parish, Essex; on the river Roding, 1 mile E of Woodford r. station, and 6 WNW of Romford. It was constituted in 1854; and it has a post-office under Chigwell-Road. Pop., 844. Houses, 170. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £200.* Patron, the Rector of Woodford-St. Mary. The church is good, and has a neat spire. There is a national school.
Woodford Bridge is now part of REDBRIDGE District. Click here for graphs and data of how REDBRIDGE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Woodford Bridge itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Woodford Bridge, in Redbridge and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23532
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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