South Stifford, Purfleet & Horndon on the Hill.

Cutting sprouting broccoli at Bradleys Farm, South Stifford. C1912.

Purfleet Village showing The Royal Hotel. c. 1910.

 

  Horndon-on-the-Hill is listed in the Doomsday Book as Horninduna. This name appears on a Saxon coin of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066AD) and suggests that Horninduna was once the site of a Royal Anglo-Saxon mint. Horndon's 16th century Woolmarket indicates the importance of the wool trade and is one of the area's historical treasures.