Editing Hornchurch (section)

===Economic development===
The [[Hornchurch Marsh]] was used for cattle grazing and became popular with butchers, [[inn]] owners and others in the [[City of London]] and by the 19th century it had become famous for the quality of the cattle sent to the [[Smithfield Market|London meat market]].<ref>Mackay, C. (1840). The Thames and Its Tributaries: Or, Rambles Among the Rivers. United Kingdom: R. Bentley.</ref> Havering was a centre of [[Leather production processes|leather production]] from the 13th to 16th centuries.<ref name="Havering 1500"/> The high street was known as [[wikt:Pell|Pell]] Street, reflecting the importance of the leather trade in Hornchurch.<ref name="Havering 1200"/> There was a [[brewery]] in Hornchurch from 1789 to 1929.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barber |first1=Norman |title=A century of British brewers, 1890 - 1990 |date=1994 |publisher=Brewery History Society |location=New Ash Green |isbn=9781873966044}}</ref> The Speedwell (later renamed Ormonde) cycle factory was located on Hornchurch Road from around 1879 to 1900.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grant |first1=Andy |title=How bicycles, manufacturing and gas lights created Roneo Corner |url=https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/21475084.heritage-bicycles-manufacturing-gas-lights-created-roneo-corner/ |access-date=28 December 2023 |work=Romford Recorder |date=17 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It employed 100 "men and boys" in 1897.<ref name="Health 1897"/> Stafford Allen and Sons set up a chemical factory in Ardleigh Green, adjacent to the railway tracks, after their first choice of a nearby site in Gidea Park was rejected in 1919. Lacrinoid Products took over the site in 1936 for a plastics factory.<ref name="Stafford">{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Ged |title=A forgotten planning decision that shaped Gidea Park |url=https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/lifestyle/21518481.heritage-forgotten-planning-decision-shaped-gidea-park/ |access-date=28 December 2023 |work=Romford Recorder |date=5 May 2018 |language=en}}</ref>