Silver End is a village and civil parish between Witham and Braintree, in Essex, England. It was conceived in the 1920s as a model village by the industrialist Francis Henry Crittall, whose works at Braintree manufactured metal windows. At Silver End he established a further Crittall Windows factory and homes for its workers, including residences for its managers designed by Scottish modernist architect Thomas Tait,[2] and ancillary buildings including the largest village hall in Britain.[2]
At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 3,914.
History
Until the 1920s, Silver End was a small hamlet in the parish of Rivenhall, comprising a handful of houses along Western Lane and the Western Arms public house.[3]