Chigwell Urban District

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Chigwell was a local government district in south west Essex. It contained the settlements of Chigwell, Loughton and Buckhurst Hill; and formed part of the Metropolitan Police District.

Formation
It was created an urban district by a county review order on 1 October 1933 as the merger of the former area of:


 * Buckhurst Hill Urban District (874 acres)
 * Loughton Urban District (3,962 acres)
 * Chigwell civil parish only, from Epping Rural District (4,135 acres)

Development
The district lay on the edge of the Greater London Conurbation and experienced a rapid population growth, in part caused by the London County Council construction in the south east of the district of the Hainault Estate (which also extended into neighbouring Ilford and Dagenham).

In 1948, the New Works Programme of the London Passenger Transport Board brought the London Underground services of the Central line to six stations in the district; namely Roding Valley, Chigwell, Grange Hill, Buckhurst Hill, Loughton and Debden.

Abolition
The Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London considered the entire district for inclusion in Greater London, however in 1965 only a small area of 81 acres (330,000 m2) around Hainault was transferred from the urban district and Essex to form part of the London Borough of Redbridge in Greater London. The population of this area in 1961 was 7,071.

On 1 April 1974 the remainder of the district was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 and the area has since formed part of the Epping Forest district.