MOD byelaws: Essex
This page brings together all available Byelaws within Essex. Please select a link to view the Byelaws.
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To be reviewed
The following sites are on the current programme to be reviewed. Unfortunately in some cases the department no longer holds copies of the relevant byelaws listed below or byelaws do not currently exist and consequently in these cases no active hyperlink is in place. It is possible, however, that copies may still be held in local county record offices, but no physical check has been made by MOD
- Colchester and District Military Lands Byelaws 1973
- Fingringhoe Ranges Byelaws 1974
- Middlewick Ranges Byelaws 1964
- Shoeburyness and District Military Lands Byelaws 1935
- Shoeburyness Artillery Ranges for firing over Maplin and Foulness Sands and neighbouring War Department Land in the County of Essex Byelaws 1936
Lapsed
Over the years the MOD has sold or transferred the freehold or relinquished the leasehold at a significant number of sites that were once the subject of byelaws. This list may also be helpful in showing for environmental and historical research those areas of the country once occupied by MOD. Unfortunately in some cases the department no longer holds copies of the relevant byelaws listed below and consequently in these cases no active hyperlink is in place. It is possible, however, that copies may still be held in local county record offices, but no physical check has been made by MOD.
- Bishop’s Stortford Rifle Range in the Counties of Hertford and Essex Byelaws 1915
- Boreham Rifle Range in the County of Essex Byelaws 1927
- Dovercourt Rifle Range ^
- Harwich Defences. Landguard and Beacon Hill Batteries Byelaws 1931
- Hornchurch (Sutton’s Farm Aerodrome) ^
- Landwick Rifle Range ^
- Maldon Field Firing Range ^
- Purfleet Range Byelaws 1983
- Tollesbury Field Firing Range ^
- Walton-on-Naze Rifle Range ^
- Witham Rifle Range ^
- Woodham Mortimer Rifle Range ^
Revoked
Over the years the MOD has reviewed existing byelaws, in the process revoking previous byelaws. The MOD has also revoked byelaws on land that is in the process of being disposed of. This list may be helpful in showing for environmental and historical research those areas of the country once occupied by MOD. Unfortunately in some cases the department no longer holds copies of the relevant byelaws listed below and consequently in these cases no active hyperlink is in place. It is possible, however, that copies may still be held in local county record offices, but no physical check has been made by MOD.
- Colchester District Byelaws 1906
- Colchester District Byelaws 1908
- Colchester District Military Lands Byelaws 1922
- Colchester District Military Lands Byelaws 1927
- Colchester District Military Lands Byelaws 1935
- Colchester (Middlewick and Donyland Ranges) in the County of Essex Byelaws 1940
- Fingringhoe Ranges in the County of Essex Byelaws 1940
- Langenhoe Field Firing Range in the County of Essex Byelaws 1919
- Langenhoe Field Firing Range in the County of Essex Byelaws 1926
- Purfleet Rifle Range Byelaws 1911 ^
- Purfleet Rifle Range Byelaws 1926
- Purfleet and Rainham Ranges Byelaws 1964
- Shoeburyness and District Military Lands Byelaws 1927
- Shoeburyness Artillery Ranges in the County of Essex Byelaws 1916
- Shoeburyness Military Tramways Byelaws 1923
- Shoeburyness Military Tramways Byelaws 1960
- Shoeburyness Ranges Byelaws 1895^
^ No copy of the Byelaw document is currently available
Related information
Ministry of Defence: byelaws review
List of Byelaws to be Reviewed
Last updated 20 June 2018 + show all updates
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Updated the links for the individual byelaws.
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Updated the byelaws page in line with the latest review.
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Added copy of lapsed Harwich Defences, Landguard and Beacon Hill Batteries byelaw.
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Shoeburyness military tramways byelaw updated from 'to be reviewed' to 'revoked'.
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Updated summary
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First published.