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===Local government=== [[File:Romford rural 1931.PNG|thumb|left|1931: Cranham (5) within [[Romford Rural District]], adjoining Upminster (4) and Great Warley (3)]] Cranham formed an ancient parish of {{convert|1879|acres|sqkm}} in the [[Chafford (hundred)|Chafford]] hundred of [[Essex]].<ref name="vision pop"/> The vestry met in the church until 1829 and then at the parish workhouse.<ref name="parishes cranham"/> In 1836 the parish was grouped for poor relief into the Romford [[Poor Law Union]] and for sanitary provision in 1875 into Romford [[Sanitary district|rural sanitary district]].<ref name="vision parish">{{cite vob | url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10237919&c_id=10001043 | name= Cranham parish | map=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/boundary_map_page.jsp?u_id=10237919&c_id=10001043 | access-date=23 February 2010}}</ref> The sanitary district became [[Romford Rural District]] from 1894 and a parish council was formed to replace the vestry. The parish formed part of the [[London Traffic Area]] from 1924 and the [[London Passenger Transport Board|London Passenger Transport Area]] from 1933.<ref name=robson>{{Cite book|title=The Government and Mis-government of London |last=Robson |first=William |year=1939 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London }}</ref> To reflect the significantly increased population in the area, Romford Rural District was abolished in 1934 and Cranham was amalgamated with neighbouring parishes into [[Hornchurch Urban District]].<ref name="hornchurch economic">{{Cite book| url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42811 | publisher=[[British History Online]] | title=Hornchurch: Economic history and local government, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7 |series= [[Victoria County History]] | year=1978 | author=Powell, W.R. (Edr.) | access-date=23 February 2010}}</ref> The parish council was abolished and Hornchurch Urban District Council became the local authority. There was a revision of boundaries with [[North Ockendon]], which had been part of [[Orsett Rural District]], absorbed into Cranham and a small area to the north, near [[Great Warley]], transferred to [[Brentwood Urban District]].<ref name="vision parish"/> In 1965 Hornchurch Urban District was abolished and its former area was transferred from Essex to [[Greater London]], to be combined with that of the [[Municipal Borough of Romford]] in order to form the present-day [[London Borough of Havering]].<ref name=vob_havering_lb>{{cite vob |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10166913&c_id=10001043 |name=Havering London Borough |access-date=23 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211082200/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10166913&c_id=10001043 |archive-date=11 February 2009 }} </ref> In 1993 the [[List of Greater London boundary changes|Greater London boundary]], to the east of Cranham and north of the railway line, was locally realigned to the [[M25 motorway]], returning some mostly unpopulated areas of open land to Essex and leaving [[North Ockendon]] as the only part of Greater London outside the bounds of the motorway.<ref name="opsi">{{Cite web| url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1993/Uksi_19931218_en_1.htm | title=Essex and Greater London (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No.2) Order 1993 | publisher=Office of Public Sector Information |year=1993 | access-date= 23 February 2010 }}</ref>
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