- 310 GREA'f WAJ... rHAM~ .! [KELLY'S belonged to the Everard family, but was purchased by that Pm'isk Clerk, James Tunbridge. of the present OlVller in 17°5; the mansion was about this Assistant Overseer and Registrar of Births. time rebuilt of red brick with stone facings and has been Robert Dannstt. since much improved. John J. TufneU esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is of a mixed POST, Mo~'"EY ORDER & 'fELlilGRAPH OFFICE & 13avings nature j subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, Bank. - Ahraham Green, postmaster. Letters. from barley and beans. The 3rea, including the ecclesil\stical arrive by mail cart at 4 a.m.; delivered at parish of , is 7,335 acres; rateable value. £12,612; 7·~O a.m. & I p.m. Box closes at 1·5 & 7·30. p.m. and the population in 1881 was 2,349. Letters may be posted until 7.45 p.m.with an extra stamp. BROADS GREEN, half a mile south-west; CHATHAM GREEN, Letters for Chatham Green go vid ~ miles north-east. National School, built in 1847, for !Z50 children; John R. At HOWB STREET, 1. mile north, is a Primitive Methodist Sydes, master j Miss Fanny Anne Joslyu, mistress; Miss Chapel, built in 1861. A. Barnes, infants' mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Britton Wm. shopkpr. Chatham green . Lucking William, butcher 1 Marked thus • receives his letterS throngh Cobb George Robert, steward to J. J. Matthams Wm. frmr.Fitz-Andrew's fnu Little Waltham. Tufnell esq. I.P. Chatham hall Mead George, farmer, Hyde Balguy John I.P. Waltham house Coote Jonas, farmer, Fitzjohns farm Milbank George, builder, Dannatt Robert Dannatt Rt.registrar of births & deaths Newman Ju. C. farmer, Absol Park frm HultonRev. HenryEdwardM.A. [vicar], Dannatt Wm. farmer, Margate woods I Phillips Susannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Vicarage Dowsett Charles, bricklayer Howe street Snow William Dowsett Philip Reuben, farmer, Wal- Pyne Benjamin T. farmer, South house 80rrell Henry thambury Rayment Charles, Windmill Tufnell John Jolliffe I.P. Langleys Dowsett Robert, bricklayer Ridley T. D. & Sons~ millers, Howe st Tufnell Miss, Wallops Franklin Edmund, tailor Robinson John, farmer, Chalk's farm COMMERCIAL. French George, farmer, Humphreys Rogers Alfred, plumber & glazier Beddall John, farmer, Warnel:s Green Abraham, post master Snow William, jun. carpenter Bentall John, farmer, Old Park farm Hardy George, beer retailer Stock Jas. farmer, Walnut Trees farm Bigg Harriet (Mrs.), baker Harris Joseph, Green Man Taylor Edward William, Sir Bells Boultwood Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper *Hasler John, farmer, Chatham green WalEs David, Rose 0/ C1'own Bradshaw Robert, farmerf Old Shaw8 Hawkes Chas. miller, Chatham green Ward Thomas, blacksmith Brewer & Sons, grocers & drapers Josling Thomas, farmer, Chatham gm Wilkerson Alfred, saddler & harnessma Brewster Sarah (Miss), ladies' school, Lucking Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Willers Samuel, harness maker Howe street Howe street Wright Richard, grocer & draper Bridge Joseph, beer retailer, Broad grn Lucking George, farmer, Owen's farm Young George, blacksmith LITTLE W ALTHAM is a village and parish in the in trust for the repair of the church and pious uses; he died Western division of the county, hundred, county court 27 Feb. 1558 and its income is derived from 122A. 3R. 35p • district and union of Chelmsford, rural deanery of Chelms- This charity is under a scheme of management drawn up ford, Essex archdeaconry and St. Albans diocese,4 miles by the Court of Chancery in 1835 and apportioned to (I) north from Chelmsford station and 33 from London, situate sustaining, repairing, enlarging or otherwise improving the on the river Chelmer, on the road from Chelmsford to Brain- parish church,(2) to the maintenance of a schoolmaster and tree. The church of St. Martin is a very ancient edifice in mistress: and to the payment of incidental expenses for the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave, teaching and for school buildings, the balance to be distri1 with a square tower at the west end containing a clock and buted every year to the poor, particularly the aged, widows 5 bells, dated respectively 1632, 1634, 1657, 1731 and 1821: and infirm persons. Aleyn's charity of £500, foundec;l in there is a winduw and a door of the Norman period in good 1663 by the John Aleyn, above-mentioned, is invested in 65 preservation: the south poroh is a later addition (about acres of land and is appropriated (I) to apprenticing POOl: 1500) and partially hides the exterior view of the north boys of the parish, (2) to the repairs of the church and Norman window: in the pavement of the nave are chancel; the balance to be distributed among the poor. two slabs with brasses j one, with the full-length figure of a Henry Savill Young esq. is lord of the manor. The princi­ knight in armour, is inscribed to John Waltham esq. 'lord pal landowner is M. W. Bird esq. The soil is mixed j sub­ of this Vill,' ob. 21 December, 1418 ; the other, near it, com- soil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and memclrates his son, Richard Waltham, next possessor pf the mangold. The area is 2,227 acres; rateable vaJ.ue, £4,314; lordship, ob. 27 October, 1426: there is also a mural and the population in 1881 was 580. tablet to John Alleyn, a benefactor to the parish and fourth BLASFORD HILLS, half a mile south. son of the Rev. Giles Alleyn, a former rector of Little Parish Clerk, James Linnett. Waltham; this John died 26 June, 1663. The register Assistant Over.fur, Robert Dannatt, dates from 35 Henry VIII. The living is a rectory, nett POST OFFICE.-George Beardsley,recei..er. Letters are re- yearly value about £600, "l\ith residence, in the gift of ceived through the Chelmsford office at 8 a.m. & 12.30 Exeter College, Oxford and held by the Rev. James Peers p.m. Box closes at 12.25 &; 6.25 p.m. The nearest money Tweed M.A. late fellow and tutor of that college. A Congre- order & telegraph office is at Great Waltham gational chapel was built 18°3, at an outlay of £800 and has a Sunday school attached, supported by subscriptions. Elementa1'Y School (mixed), built in 1857, for 134 children: Poole's charity was founded in 1557-8, by Roger Poole, it is partly endowed from Poole's charity, as specified yeoman, a native and inhabitant of this plac'8, who, at the above & has an average attendance of 95 children; William date specified, settled certain lands called' Channels' and Hooper. master • Colemans ' on Richd. Sorrel and other persons of this parish, CARRIER TO CHELMSFORD John Lucking, daily Marked thus" are in Great Waltham Surry Mrs. James Joice WilIiam, farmer, Stonage farm parish. Tweed Rev. James Peers M.A. Rectory Josling William, cooper PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Wells Joseph, Woodhouse Keeble George, farmer, Channel's farm Linnett Charles, thatcher *Bedford Mrs. Albion house COMMERCIAl.. *Mansfield James, grocer BirdMaurice William, Walt.ham hall Bearsby Geo. &: Co. drapers, &; post office Poole James, farmer, Pratts Cole Absalom Bedford Charles Frederick, Bell inn Reeve James, wheelwright Fowler Rev. Joseph [Congregational] Brewster Wm. farmer, New Park farm *Rust Frederick, farmer Goodchild Arthur Burton Arthur, boot & shoe maker Skinner Henry, grocer Baslar James *Campen Lewis Waiter, White Hm"t Snow Peter, farmer, Long's farm Ling Henry Quie, Merefield Campen M. (Mrs.), farmer, Be~teads *80rre11 James, butcher Mockett Matt, Lodge Cant Phillip, farmer *Stubbins George, wheelwright Quilter Mrs . Charge Thomas, saddler Swal1olf' Daniel, beer retlr. Blasford hill Rust Frederick John, Foxtons Darby John, farmer, Sheepcotes farm Wells Joseph. farmer Silvester George, Blasford hill Goodchild Arthur. surgeon Young Henry, baker W ALTHAMSTOW is • parish adjoining Leyton, in the with four stations on the Walthamstow and' Chingforo Southern di,-ision of the county, jurisdiction of the Centl"al branch of the Gteat Eastern railway and is situated I mile criminal court & Metropolitan police, Beoontree hundred, from the navigable river Lee and 6 miles from Shoreditch West Ham union, Bow county court district, rural deanery church. The name is of Saxon origin~ being derived from of Barking, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of St. Albans, 'weald' (wood),' ham I (a manor) and 'stow&f ~a place).