In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gidea Park like this:
GIDEA HALL, the seat of the Blake family in Essex; near the Eastern Counties railway, 1 mile NE of Romford. It superseded a previous mansion which belonged to the Cookes, and which was visited in 1568 by Queen Elizabeth, and in 1638 by Mary de Medici.
Additional information about this locality is available for Romford
Gidea Park through time
A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Gidea Park has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Havering. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Gidea Park and units named after it.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gidea Park, in Havering and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23564
Date accessed: 19th June 2013
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