page_title: Boreham
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Boreham / History
caption_attribution_description: Boreham House, Boreham, EssexThis is a photo of listed building number 1338403.
context_page_description: Boreham is a village and civil parish, in Essex, England. The parish is in the City of Chelmsford and Chelmsford Parliament constituency. The village is approximately 3.7 miles northeast from the county town of Chelmsford.
context_section_description: Boreham is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Borham, thought to mean 'village on a hill'.
  Local legend holds that highwayman Dick Turpin rode down the route than now forms part of the A12 on his famous ride from London to York, although historians now believe the ride never occurred.
  In the 1930s Boreham House and its surrounding land of 3,000 acres (12 km²) was bought by car magnate Henry Ford. In addition to using the house as a school for training Ford tractor mechanics, the company's British chairman, Lord Perry, established Fordson Estates Limited there, and founded the Henry Ford Institute of Agricultural Engineering, an agricultural college. The house also served as the temporary home for the National College of Agricultural Engineering in 1962. This moved to Silsoe, Bedfordshire as Silsoe College later joining with Cranfield University. The Silsoe campus closed at the end of 2007.
  In 1952 a Ham class minesweeper, HMS Boreham, was named after the village.
  Boreham remained relatively small until the mid-1970s when a programme of house and shop building increased its size significantly.
  Boreham contains one of England's few remaining independent family-run gunsmiths, which was established in 1795.
caption: Boreham House
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