634 GREAT TOTHAM. E~SEX. [KELLY'S Fuller Edgar James, poultry ·breeder, Goodwin Ralph, farmer 'Sewton Henry E.Prince of Wales f.D Roundbush farm Grout Waiter, frmr. Giperacks farm Seager George, farmer, Alley's farm Fuller Robert, cattle doctor Grout Waiter, jun. frmr. Paynes frm Wager Herbt.Shoulder of Mutton P.B Gentry Ernest, carpenter Hammond Thomas, photographer Ward Alfred & Son, builders Gentry Mark, jobmaster Lennox James, farmer, Hill House fm Ward Alfred, farmer, Totham half Gentry Thomas, jobmaster Marvin Louisa (Mrs.) & Son,farmers, Ward Frederick, farmer George Florence (Mrs.), Compasses Walden house Wright Job, shopkeeper, & post offire P.H Mayne Arthur James, dairyman LITTLE TOTHAM is a parish on a small brook, 3 Frederick Thomas Gardner M . .!.. of St. Peter's College, miles from East station on the Maldon, Cambridge, who resides at . The trustees and Braintree branch of the Great Eastern railway, 42 of the late Frank Postle Bawtree esq. (d. 1912) are from London, about 4 north-east from Maldon, and 6 lords of the manor. The soil is various; subsoil, mostly south-east from Witham, in the Eastern division of the graveL The chief crops are wheat, bearu;, peas and county, Thurstable ·hundred, Witham petty sessional barley. The area is 1,289 acres of land, 3 of inland division, Maldon union and county court district, and in a.nd 3. of tidal water and 22 of foreshore; rateable Yalue, the rural deanery of :Maldon, archdeaconry of [,1,205; population in 19II, 402. and Chehnsford diocese. The chm:ch of All Saints is a Parish Clerk, Thomas Lewis. small building of stone and rubble in the Norman style, By the "Divided Parishes Act," a part of Little Tot- consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western ham, known as Totham Hill, has been tran11fened to tower of flints with a wooden belfry, containing 3 bells: Great Totham, and by Local Government Board Order the south doorway within the p_orch is a good example 22,354, March 24, 1889, a detached part of Goldhanger of late Norman work, with star ornament and billet mould- has been added to Little Totham. ing: the north doorway is also Norman, and that at the Post Office.-Miss Mary May hew, sub-postmistress. Letp west end is dated 1547: in the chancel is an inscription ters through Witham lll'rive 5.20 a. m. & 8.25 a.m. to the Rev. John Lasby, redor of this parish with Gold- callers only; dispatched at 10.40 a.m, & 7.30 p.m.; banger, d. 1703, and Elizabeth (Sammes) his wife; there sun day, arrive 6.20 a. m.; dispatched at 7.30 p.m. is also an inscription to John Sammes esq. ob. Oct. 18, Tolleshunt D'.A.rcy is the nearest money order & tele- t6o6 and dame Isabel his wife: the church affords 130 graph office, 3 miles distant sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. The Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1897• for 6o living is a rectory, consolidated with the rectory of Gold- children; average attendance, 57; Clement Kirby, hanger, joint net yearly value £554• with 35 acres IJf master glebe and residence, in the gift of the trustees of the This school is under the control of the Maldon Distrie\ late Mrs. Pocock, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Education. Sub-Committee (Marked thus * have letters through I Eckworth Arthur, farmer Knox James, farmer Heybridge, Maldon.) French John, farmer, Old farm Lagden George F. farmer, Little *Fleming-Williams Clifford The Old *Gurton George, bOI1der Totham hall Mill house ' Gurton J oseph, farmer Miller Leonard, farmer, Rook hall Gurton Thomas, farmer, Moores farm I *Pinhey Wm. H. farmer, Ohapel frm COMMERCIAL. *Handley Ben, Mill Beach hotel Powell Elizabeth (Mrs.), Eagle P.H Appleton Harry, vermin destroyer Hnmphreys Harry, sheep dresser Quy Fred, shopkeeper Bartholomew Charles, farmer *Hutley Robert, farmer, Chigboro' Smith Arthur, farmer Belcher Mrs. Elizabeth, beer retailer Jopson James, carpenter TWINSTEAD (or Twinshead), recorded in Domesday rector here 1838-78: the church affords 200 sitting!. book, is a village and parish, 4! miles south from The register dates from the year 1567. The living ill a Sudbury station on the Su:mr Valley and 5 north- rectory, net yearly value /,180, with residence and n! · east from Halstead 8tation on the Colne Valley section acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and of the Great Ea8tern railway, in the Northern division held since 1914 by the Rev . .A.rthur Herbert Manning, of the county, Hinckford hundred, Sudbury union and of Cambridge University. There are no manorial rights. county court district, South Hinckford petty sessional The principal landowners are John and Oliver Stebbing division (Halstead bench), Halstead and Hedingham esqrs. the Rev. Lancelot W. H . .Andrews M.A. of Oarl­ rural deanery, archdeaconry and ton Colville, Lowestoft, Charles Porter Nott esq. and diocese. The church of St. John the Evangelist, con- King Viall esq. of Baythorne Park. The soil is loam I!'!'Crated in x86o, is a structure of red brick, in the and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, Geometrical or Middle-Pointed style, consisting of chan- barley, oaU!, beans and peas. The area is 1,153 acres; eel, nave, south porch and a western turret, containing rateable value, £872; the population in 1911 was I'JO one bell : the walls of the interior are decorated through- in the civil parish and I46 in the ecclesiastical parish. out with orname~tal br~ckwork and tiles l~i~ in pat- By Local Government Board Order 16461, March. 25, terns: all the wmdows I~ the chancel are .!named: the t88_:;, New Houses, Hill and Lower Faroolil were transferred entrance from the nave mto the chancel IS through a from Great Hennv to Twinstead for civil purposes. - stone screen of three equal arches, a feature believed S t R" h d. Wh"t s·d to be confined io four churches in : the stone ex on, IC ar I e I ey. font is surmounted by a canopy : here are brasses to Post Office. Mrs. Hanna.h English, sub-postmistress. Isaac Wyncoll esq. and Mary, his wife, x6ro, daughter Open on week days from 8 till II a.m. & from 12 of Sir Thomas Gawdy kt. and judge of the Queen's noon till 5 p.m. Letters received through Sndbnry Bench, with five daughters, the figure of a son being (Suffolk) arrive at 8.35 a.m. & 12.15 p.m.; dispatched lost: the chancel contains mural tablets to the Rev. at ~10.40 & 4.30 p.m. week days only; no sunday Robert Gray M.A. d_ 1837, 45 years rector of the parish; delivery or dispatch. The nearest money ordel' c\ to Charlotte Augusta, elder daughter of Sir GeorgP telegraph office is at Pebmarsh, 3 miles distant William Denys bart. d. r826, and to Elizabeth (Lind) Wall Letter Box, Rectory, cleared at 8.15 a.m. & 4·45 p.m his wife, d. 29 June, 1828: in 1QOj a memorial bras~ The children of this place attend the schools at Wickham was placed in the chancel to the Rev. H. V. Shortland, St. Paul's & Great Henny (Marked thus * receive their letters l'OM.YERCU.L. Nice William. blacksmith through Pebmarsh, Bures, Suffolk.) *Clarke John, carpenter Nott Ohas. Porter,farmer,Pelharn ball English Charles & Albt. carpenters Stebbing John, farmer, Roses house PRIVATE !tESIDENT. English Daniel, jobbing gardener Stebbing Oliver, farmer, Hill farm Manning Rev. Arthur Herbert English Lucy (Mrs.), laundress Turpin William E. farmer, Twinstead (rector), Rectory Harding David, beer retailer hall UGLEY, see Oakley. ULTING is a parish on the north bank of the river chancel, nave, north porch and a western turret of wood Chelmer, 2! miles south from Hatfield Peverel station with spire, and containing one bell: the church was re· on the main line of the Great Eastern railway and 2 stored in 1873 by subscription at a cos~ of £r,ooo. wet~t from· Longford station on the :Maldon branch of when the east, west and south walls and the chancel the same company, and 8 east-by-north from Chelms­ were partially rebuilt, new windows added, the turret tord, in the Eastern division of the county, Witham bun· and spire reconstructed and a new pulpit and lectern dred and petty sessional division, Maldon union and added ; it was also re-seated throughout with oak and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Witham, an oaken porch erected on the north side: there are 85 archdeaconry of Colchester and Chelmsford diocese. ~ittinj!s. The register dates from the year 1723, buli The church of All Saints is a small and ancient buildi111!' the communion plate dates from I.'i71. The Iivin~ ill a of stone and flint in the Early English style, consisting of vicarage, net yearly value £no, with residence. in the