High Elms Farm covered an area of 206 acres. Reaching from Lower Road to the river and straddling the main thoroughfare, Ferry Road, the farm was divided into 22 fields. Each field had a name. 'Seven
Acres' and 'Home Meadow' were self-descriptive but others had names to conjure with. From where in the farm`s history came 'Hoppit', 'China & Pear Tree' and 'Vinus Meadow'?
In 1923 High Elms Farm was bought by the estate agents Best & Beech and divided into building plots, to be offered for sale at £10.
The urbanisation of Hullbridge had begun.
HULLBRIDGE circa 1925
Reproduced by courtesy of the Essex Record Office