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PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Rritlge Benjamin, beer retailer Martin Stepheu, plumber Barber Charles, Harrow lodge Brown Peter (Mrs. ),farmPr, Guhlin's la M inns Tom, baker & corn dealer Brown Philip, Great garden Brown Samuel, farmer, Southend .l\litchell Edward, miller Cove Mrs. Holly lodge Collin Albert, tailor N obbs Henry, artificial manure maker Crosthwaite Rev. John Clarke, M.A. Cross Hannah (Mrs.), beer retailer, Parish Samuel, straw dealer Thorp lodge Butt's green Pearce Thomas, smith & farrier Fry.Joseph, J.P. Fairkytes Cross J a bez, heer retailer Pjnchon William, grocer Griffith Rev. Thos. Hy. B.C.L. [vicar] Currie George, farmer Pitt John, farmer Harvey Alfred, Haveringwell Louse Dale James, straw dealer, Butt's green Prebble William, tobacco pipe maker Helme Edward, The Lodge Davis Henry, farmer Poulter Thomas. farmer, A.rdleigh green J ones John, Longfield house Diaper Jonathan Shadrach, wheel- Prince Thomas, farmer J o1-dison Robert Lloyd wright & coach builder Roper Adam, farmer, Old Redincourt Meldrid Henry, Sutton gate Dockerill Robert, carpenter Salmon Georg-e, baker, Hard1ey green Miles Mrs. Bush elms Franklyn John, shoe maker Sibthorpe William, builder Newman Rev. Thomas Harding, D.D. Franklyn John, jun. saddler Steel Isaac, butcher Great N elmes Fraser James, tarmer, Malins green Stent John, beer retailer Pound Philip, Lilleyputs Freeman Thomas, Cherry Tree Stevens J ames, baker Price George Ralph, Ardley lodge French John, Cricketers Stevens Joseph Henry, baker Sulman Benjamin, Little Langtons Garrad J ames, pork butcher Stevens William, farmer Wagener .John, Langtons Gaywood Mrs. Louisa, butcher Stratford Frederick, ~rocer Wedlake Thomas Wm. White house Gooch Brooks, farmer, The Hall Townsend J.ames, blacksmith White Richard, Haveringwell villa Gooch Saml. Brooks, farmer, Gt.Sutton Tunbridge William Henry, Bull Grout Daniel, Crown, Haveringwell Turp J a ne (Miss), beer retailer COMMERCIAL. Hankinson William Henry, brick, tile Tyrrell James, baker Alabaster Waiter Goddard, carpenter & drain pipe maker Viall Julia (Mrs.), mop manufacturer Alexander Rd. cow keeper & coal dealer Hilsdon Thomas, florist, Butt's green Viuce Antony, f<~.rmer Argent John, Harrow inn Horsleins Charles, machine maker Wedlake Thomas William, enginePr, Eaker Henry, grocer & draper Jellis John, King's Head millwril!ht & iron & brass tounder, Barker Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Jordison Robert Lloyd, surgeon Union iron works; depot at Rom­ Beckett George, saddler Kemp George, grocer & draper ford (open daily) Bonnet Mary (Mrs.), farmer Laws George, farmer W olfe George, butcher Brewster Alexander, boot maker Lee Peter, Crooked Billet Wood Henry, Spencer's Arms llridge Charles & Son, hurrlle makers& MrG1bbon William, tailor W oodfine 1'homas, brewer & rualtster wheelwrights, Haveringwell Manning Thomas Stevt:ns, farmer Wren Richard, beer retailer •

EAST HORNDON and HERON GATE. EAST HORNDON is a parish, in the Southern division of the In this parish there are two manors, East Horndon and county, Barnstahle hundred, union, Brentwood Fowcher's Heron, the lordships of which are respectively held county court and police district, Billericay rural deanery, by Lord Petre and Geor~e Alan Lowndes, esq., who are also Essex archdeaconry, and Rochester diocese, on the road from the chief landowners. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, clay. Brentwood to Orsett, 3 miles south from Brentwood station The chief crops are wheat, oats, and barley. The area of on the Great Eastern railway, 21 from London, and 4 the parish is 1,484 acres; gross estimated rental, £2,467; south-west from Billericay. The church of All ~aints is rateable value, £2,28! 19s. ~d.; and the population in 1871 of very small red bricks, and built about the time of Henry was 470. V I.: it consioh of a massive stunted tower which has 4 The hamlet of HERON GATE (which is the village of the bell!!; the interior contains nave, south porch, transepts parish) stands on the southern brow of the eminence, three (which have been chapels), chancel, with a large aisle to the quarters of a mile north of the church, and near what was south called the Tyrell chapel, and another small chapel on formerly a considerable an~a of common land : it takes its the north, with groined roof, now used as a vestry: the name from a !?:ate which was across the road near the old chance! floor has upon it a very remarkable incised slab to "Boar's Head," and which divided in this spot the Heron the memory of one of the Tyrell family, dated 1422; there are manor from the Abbot manor. The Heron manor and also other monuments to the same family in the chapels mansion for many centuries belonged to the Tyrell family ; uorth and south of it, with some old pieces of armour: the it took it~ name from a family named Heron, who owned it chancel roof has a number of very handsomely carved bosses: for many years before the Tyrells; the mansion has been in the south transept wall there is an altar tomb, which is pulled down. said to be a memorial of the burial here of the heart or head Parish Clerk, Charles Edwards. of Queen An ne Boleyn : the transepts are further remark­ able as being ceiled, and the room over the southern one was probably the dwelling of a chantry priest attached to the PosT OFFICE.-William Such, receiver. Letters arrive church. The regbter datEs from the year 1658. The living from Brentwood at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 6 p.m. The is a rectory, yearly value £3!4, in the gift of, and held by, nearest money order office is at Brentwood the Rev. J onathan J ones, l\l,A., who resides at Dunton. National School, Miss Sarah Goddard Frost, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brewster Thomas, boot & shoe maker King Charles, harness maker Hopkinson George Henry Bright William, beer retailer Moss William, carrier Lucas Ed ward Clark William, bricklayer Robinson Henry William, farmer & Steuart Capt. David, The Firs C'ole Philip, farmer, Mount Thrift farm miller, East Horndon hall Tr~::acher W illiam Boil and Eldred Hannah (Mrs.), baker & beer Smith Charles, Boar's Head retailer Squier \V m. farmer,Dunton Hill's farm COMMERCIAL. Farrant & Son, grocers Stone Mary( i\lrs. ),tarrner,Heri•D house Barwell & Son, grocers Harris George, blacksmith ::-iuch William, tailor & post office Boardman Thomas, carpenter Jiggens James, marine store dealer Young Joseph, wheelwright

HORNDON•ON-THE-HILL is an old town and yearly value £210, in the gift of tl1e Dean and Chapter of parish, so named from being on a hei~ht, havin~ a good view St. Paul's, and 11eld by the Rev. John Windle, M.A., of over the neighbouring land and river to the west as far as Trinity College, Cambridge. A National school has been London, and to the east to the sea : it is in the Southern erected here. J ames Theobald, esq., is lord of the manor division of the county, Barnstable hundred, Orsett union, Tl1e principal landowners are R. B. W ingfield-Baker, J ames :Brentwood county court district, Orsett rural deanery, Essex Theobald, T. Montgomery, and Joseph C. Dimsdale, esqrs arcbdeaconry, and Rochester diocese, on the road from The soil is clayey; mbsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, to and Grays, and 1 ~ miles from the beans and peas. Here wa<~ formerly a market on Saturdays. Stanford-le-Hope station on the ::-louthend railway, 24 miles There is a farm called the Saffron Gardens, from the former from London, and 2 east from Orsett. The church of St. growth of saffron. The area is 2,649 acres; gross estimated Peter is in the middle of the town, and has chancel, nave, rental, £4,892; rateable value, £4,345; the population in aisles, and tower constructed of wood with 3 bells. The 1871 \\'as 611. register dates from the year 159::!. The liviP.'{iS a wi.::arage,