This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. There are 307 civil parishes. The former Thurrock Urban District, Benfleet Urban District, Harlow Urban District and Clacton Urban District are unparished. Parts of the former Basildon Urban District, Braintree and Bocking Urban District, Brentwood Urban District, Colchester Municipal Borough, Chelmsford Municipal Borough and Southend-on-Sea County Borough are also unparished. Population figures are not available for some of the smallest parishes. The three parishes of Heydon, Great Chishill and Little Chishill were formerly in Essex, they were transferred to Cambridgeshire in boundary changes in 1895.