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ILFORD [GREAT ILFORD]

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ILFORD [See also:GREAT ILFORD] , an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Romford See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England, on the Roding, 7 M. E.N.E. of See also:London by the Great Eastern railway. Pop. (1891) 10,913, (1901) 41,234. A portion of Hainault See also:Forest lies within the See also:parish. The See also:hospital of St See also:Mary and St See also:Thomas, founded in the 12th See also:century as a leper hospital, now contains almshouses and a See also:chapel, and belongs to the See also:marquess of See also:Salisbury, who as " See also:Master " is required to maintain a See also:chaplain and six aged inmates. The chapel appears to be of the date of this See also:foundation. Claybury See also:Hall is a lunatic See also:asylum (1893) of the London See also:County See also:Council. There are large photographic material See also:works and See also:paper See also:mills. LITTLE ILFORD is a parish on the opposite (See also:west) See also:side of the Roding. The See also:church of St Mary retains See also:Norman portions, and has a curious monumental See also:brass commemorating a boy in school-going clothes (1517). Pop.

(1901) 17,915.

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