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Shoebnryness and 41 from London. The parish is in 1 gravel. The chief crops are beans. wheat. barley and • 22 the South Eastern division of the countv,• hnn- white mustard. The area is 2,016 acres of land. of dred, petty sessional division and union, Southend inland and rs6 of tidal water and 132 of fo.reskore; county court district, Canewdon and Southend rural rateable value, [2,393; the population in 19II was 40> deanery, Essex archdea.conry, and diocese of . . . The church of St. Peter is a building of stone in t-he EAST END 1s a hamlet a mlle and a half so_ut~-east_;. Perpendicular style, consisting {)f chancel, nave, south a. ~art of Wal~as~a Island, called Gra~nells, 1s m tha porch and an embattled tower containing 3 bells: the pansh. Th~ Mission Hall here, erecte~ m 1S~}3 at a cost church was restored in 1333 at a cost of £ 1,700, when of £2oo, w1ll_ hold ISO persons, and 1s now us~ for a the east and wesli windows were filled with stained m~nt?Jy serVIce and as a club room;_ the 1nte and -glass: there are ISO sittmgs. The register of baptisms bml~mg were presented by Zachary Pett1tt esq. of Loft- and burials dalies from I7I9; marriages, 1733. 'fhe mans, Canewdon. living is a rectory, net yearly value [282, with 18 acres Sexton, Edward Woolf. of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Post Office. Miss Emily E. Rice, sub-postmistres~ Peterborough, and held since 1905 by the Rev. William Letters arrive from Rochford, Essex, at 8.30 a.m.; Fraser M.A. of Trinity Coilege, Dublin. The charities dispatched at 3.40 p.m. ; sundays, 10.20 a.m. Thtt amount to [26 yearly. The oyster fishery has of late nearest money order office is at Canewdon ~ telegrap~ Yfars greatly diminished. Messrs. Zaehary Pettitt, office, Rochford, 6 miles distant Arthur M. Nicholls and Frederick W. and Arthur Wise- Wall Letter Box, Church End, cleared daily 3·55 p.m.; man own the largest beds. The Rev. William North sundays, 10.35 a.m Andrews M . .A. rector of Boxford, Berks, who ~s lord of Public Elementary School, built in I849 & enlarged ia the manor, Lieut.-Col. Sir .Augustus .Alex. Brooke· 1872 & I894, at a cost of [3oo, for 120 children; aver- Pechell bart. and Percy J. Hutley esq. are the principal age attendance, 84; A. James Legge. master landowners. The soil is middling loam; subsoil, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Davis C. D. (exors. of), farmers, Nicholls Arthur Michael. oyster mer Fraser Rev. William M.A. (rector), South hall & Stannetts Rice Emily E. (Miss), shopkeeperp The Rectory Hutley Percy James, farmer, Cupola Post office Hutley Percy James, Cupola house house & West Hall farm Robinson William, carpenter Nicholls Arthur Michael, The Chase Hymas George Henry, farmer,Finch's' Saward Albert Harry,Punch Bowl P.H Tarbet Wm. Gardner, Paglesham ho & Maule'.s farms Shuttlewood J. William, boat builder Wiseman Arthur, Redcroft Kemp Edith E. (Mrs.), Plough & Wiseman Frederick W. & Arthurp Wiseman Fredk. W. Buckland house Sail P.H oyster merchants, Buckland house comrERCIAL. Meeson Henry, farmer, Church hall, Atkinson William Thomas, shopkeepr East hall & Clements

P ANFIELD is a pleasant villag~ and parish near the I285, as an alien priory, in order to prevent money river Pant, 3 miles north-by-west from Braintree sta­ being carried thence to the enemy, a policy repeated tion, on a branch of the Great Eastern railway, and by Edward III. in 1337-8 : the possessions of this 45 from London, in t:tle Eastern division of the county, religious house were restored on the estsblishmtntt of Hinckford hundred, South Hinckford petty sessional peace and the inmates continued in their enjoyment division (Braintree benoi:t), Braintree union and county till 1414, when all alien priories were totally sup­ court district, rural deanery of Braintree, arohdeaconry pres5ed and their property ve11ted in the Crown: of and Chelmsford diocese. The church of after the Dissolution in 153B, it was granted to Sir St. Mary is a small edifice of flint with Bath stone Giles Capel. Panfield Hall, erected in the year 1546, i1 dressings in tho Perpendicular style, and consists of a fine building, with a quadrangular tower and hand· chancel, with organ chamber, nave, a fine old oak south somely clustered chimneys : it is now occupied by porch and a small western tower with octagonal shingled George A. Newman esq. Major A. M. Tabor, of :BaTing­ spire containing 3 bells: in 1858 the church was restored don Hall, Bocking, who is lord of the manor, and the­ at a cost of [r,4oo: on the south side of the nave is a trustees of Guy's Hospital are the principal landowner&. piscina: there are three stained windows, filled at the The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are­ cost of H. W. Burgess esq. a former patron, the east wheat, barley, oats and pasture land. The area is 1o49S window being a. memorial to his family : among persons acres; assessable value, £937; the population in 19n of liote interred here are John Cotton esq. ancestor of was 261. the distinguished family of that name, of the Hall manor, and Alice, his wife, ob. 1525, and to Richard PENNY GREEN is half a mile north-west. Beale esq. ob. 1712: the learned John Ouseley, scholar, divine and antiquary, was rector here from 1668 to Letters received through Braintree arrive at 8 a.m. & 3 1694: there are 170 sittings. The register dates from p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 8-45 a. m. & 6 p.m.;. tbe year 1569. The living is a rectory, net yearly value sundays, 8.45 a.m. Backing, 1! miles distant, is the­ £240, with residence and 9 acres of glebe, in the gift of nearest money order & telegraph office Mrs. Sadgrove, and held since> 19II by the Rev. Edward Public Elementarv :::ichool (mixed), built in 1875, 11t a Symonds, Th.A.K.C. Half a mile north was formerly cost of between £3oo & £4oo, including the site, for (1, priory of Benedictine monks, subordinate to the 70 children; average attendance about 35; Miss R­ abbey of St. Stephen, at Caen, in Normandy, and A. Ticehurst, mistress founded from a gift by Waleran FitzRalph, in 1070, This school is controlled by the Essex County Educa­ of his little manor at Panfield to that house: on the tion (Brain~ree Distrkt) Sub-Committee, John Gleave,. outbreak of hostilities between and France County school, Braintree, clerk in the 13th centuryj it was seized by Edward I. in Butcher George, "heelwright Lawrence Arthur, shopkeeper PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Byford Waiter, farmer, Great Priory Lawrence Cbas. farmer, Little Priory Browning George Challis Joe, Bell P.H Lawrence David, farmer J oscelyne Ern est Jas. Panfield farm Gowers Harry, beer retail~>r Lawrence Samuel, farmer, Coldhall Newman George A. Panfield hall Grubb William. shoe maker Ne\\Illan U. A. land agt.Pantield ball Symonds Rev. Edward Th.A.K.C. Hodson & Chester, farmers Ratcliffe Bartlett, farmer & land- (rector), Rectory Joscelyne Ernt>st James, farmer & owner. Lightwaters & Hill farms COMlltlERCIAL. landowner, Panfield, Ivyhall, Silks SudburyGeo.poultt·y frmr.Harvey'11 (ID A.mbrose John, farmer & Pe-rrychilds farms Whife Thomas, shopkeeper Bantock Harry, farm bailiff to G. A. J oscelyne Reginald Ern est, poultry Newman esq farmE'r, Panfield farm • PARKESTON, see . GREAT PARNDON is a village and parish, 3 miles and is an edifice oi stone and rubble in the Late Per· south-east from Roydon station and ~ miles south from pendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and Burnt Mill station on the Cambridge section of the south transepts, north porch and an embattled western Great Eastern railway, 3~ south-west from , 6 to\\er, containing 4 bells, three of which were recast north from Epping, 10 east from Hertford and 22 trom in 1902: the fourth bears the inscription, " Praise the London; in the \t estern division of the county, Harlow Lord," x6I3 ; the stained east window is a memorial hundred and petty sessional division, Epping union1 to the family of J ohnson, and was inserted in 1877 : Waltham county court district, and in the rural deanery the south-east window was presented by J. Todhunter of Harlow, archdeaconry of Essex and Chelmsford esq. to the memory of Her late Majesty Queen diocese. The Todds brook flows through the parish. Victoria and the north-east window is in memorv• of · The church (name unknown) :stands on rising ground His late Majesty King Edward VII.; the reredos wa&