Rochford Life

Welcome to the Rochford Life HOME PAGE Week Beginning Sun 24th March 2019 th 2013

Our Light Reading, Recreational and Learning Pages - simply click on a Title below

This is Rochford, Essex, U.K.

Always on the lookout for ways to reveal Rochford and its life, we took one of Richard Argent’s amazing cartoon pictures of Rochford and tried colouring it in - a near impossibility because there is so much there. A Challenge: get a copy of this print from Richard (http://www.argentart.co.uk/) and see how many aspects of the buildings and history of Rochford you can count.

To see more detail about Rochford Market see http://www.rochfordmarket.co.uk/

Next Nostalgia Coffee Morning

Wednesay March 27

Library - monthly activities:

March + April

Please see our new editorial policy in respect of the Local Authorities

For RDC website CLICK HERE

Nominations for RD Awards 22/3/19

New Cherry Orchard Entrance 19/3/19

‘Safeguarding’ Training for Taxi Drivers 18/3/19

Change to Polling Stations 15/3/19

Watch for your Polling Cards 15/3/19

Programme for regeneration of the District 5/3/19

Regular Local Events & Dates

General Info.

Calendar Dates

Health Sheets

Rochford Town Team Website

Latest Police Community Messages

- Restorative Justice

- Young Offending Team

Rotary & Airport Collections

Check out Airport latest:

Flight News: New to Channel Islands AND to Scotland (x3)

General News: 10 year celebration

+ Airport & SU Community Trust

Growing Stuff: ‘The Wonder of Trees’

March Thought: ‘Whatever is going on?’

Silver Surfers: Conflicting Times

NEW Quiz: Games & Sports

NEW Tapestry: ‘Commentators Comment’

According to the amazing https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ8790/rochford/ website Rochford Hundred appears in the Doomsday Book as an area with 23 named places, and Rochford itself had 21 households (quite large) - 5 villagers. 12 smallholders. 3 slaves. 1 free men.. According to Wikipedia The town is the main settlement in the Rochford district, and takes its name from Rochefort, Old English for Ford of the Hunting Dogs. A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086