174 GREAT HALLINGBURY. ESSEX. [KELLY's the borders of Hertfordshire, takes its name from an disparehed at 10.30 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. The nearest ancient Roman vallum or camp, hexagonal in plan, which money order & telegraph office is at Bishop's Stortford. occupied a strong position, terminating in a precipice Postal orders are issued here, but not pru.d and overlooking the Stort; it covered 36 acres, was Church School (mixed), built, with master's house, in double ditched and nearly a mile in circumference. 1851, at a cost of nearly [2,ooo, by the late J. A. Post Office. James Levey, sub-postmaster. Letters Houblon esq. for 200 children; average attendance, Bo; through Bishop's Stortford arrive at 7.30 & 10.30 a.m.; Miss Charlotte Bryan, mistress Boyden William Calvert Benjamin, head gardener to Judd Charles, shopkeeper :Browne Philip Col. G. B. _Archer-Houblon esq. J.P Levey James, carpenter, Post office Fowler William Childs Nathan, foreman to Col. Monk William, basket maker Jloublon Lieut.-Col. George Bramston Archer-Houblon, Harps farm Prior John A. insurance agent Arob.er- J.P. & Lady Alice F. Hal- Coleman Frank (Mrs.), farmer, Wood- Prior Stephen P. farm bailiff to lingbury Place side green Frederick :Miller esq. Latchmore LITTLE HALLINGBURY, anciently called "Hal including 20 acres of glelbe, with residence, in the gift of lingbury Bourchier," or '' Bowser," the whole of the the Governors of the Charterhouse, London, and held property in Little Hallingbury having formerly belonged since 188o by the Rev. John Julius Baker M.A. of Exeter to the Bourchiers, Earls of Essex, is a village and parish College, Oxford. The Governors of the Oharterhouse, situated on the borders of Herts and on the river Stort, who are 1ord.s of the manor, and Lt.-Col. G. B. Archer .albout 3 miles south from Bishop's Stortford station on Houblon J.P. of Hallingbury Place, Great Hallingbury, the main line of the Great Eastern railway, in the West are the principal landowners. 'fhe soil is gravel and ern division of the county, Harlow petty sessional division clay; subsoil, white clay and gravel. The chief crops and hundred, Bishop's Stortford union and county court are wheat, barley and oaJts. The area. is 1,612 acres; district, rural deanery of Harlow, archdeaconry of Essex rateable value, £1,993; the population in 1891 was 6n. a.nd diocese of St. Albans. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of flint with stone dressings, of the Post Office.-George Hurehinson, sub-postmaster. Let Early Decorated period, consisting of chancel, nave of ters arrive by foot post from .Bishop Stortford at 7·45 nve bays, north aisle and a square wooden turret contain a.m.; dispatched at 5·45 p.m. The nearest money ing 3 bells, one of these being of pre-Reformation date : order & telegraph offices are at Hatfield Heath & Saw bridgeworth. Postal orders are issued here, but not the stained east window was given by the Pelly family of paid - Gastons and an organ 'chamber and vestry were added in 1885. The register of baptisms and marriages dates National S'Chool (mixed), built in 1869 at a cost of £934. from 1711 ; burials from r69o. The living is a rectory, for wo children; average attendance, 86; William S. :average tithe rent-charge [359, net yearly value [3oo, Grey, master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Calvert William D. agricultural engi- Perry Thomas (Mrs.), farmer Eaker Rev. JGhn Julius M.A. Itectorv neer & farmer Potter Charles, shoe maker Holland M1·s. Gastons • l~dwards S. millers & farmers, Hal- Rose Geo:-ge, frmr. George Green fm Sargisson Henry }'; lingbury mills Rust George, black.smith Hurehinson George, grocer & draper, Sapsford Gwrge, coffee hous~ keeper COMMERCIAL. Post office Sibthorpe Ezekiel, poultry dlr. New l3eedell John, farmer, l\fonkb,)rry farm J ocelyn George, shoe maker Barns lane Jlowtell Simeon, beer retailer Jocelyn Henry, sLoe m::~ker Smith Frederick, shopkeeper 11rown John, farmer Lean Samuel, farmer, Stonehouse fm 1-Veller James, gamekeeper to Col. G llrown Thomas, farmer & landowner, Marsden George, confectwne!' B.Archer-H<'ublon e~q. W:ndside gn Little Hallingbury hall Marshal! Wil!iam, Sutton Arms P.H • HALSTEAD and GREENSTEAD GREEN. :Ha:stead (or Halsted) is an ancient town and is the head portion of the south aisle, which is of the Geometrical or Colchester to Cambridge and Chelmsford to Sudbury, including Sir Robert de Bourchier, Chief Justice of the "With a station on the Colne Valley railway, and is 14 King's Bench in Ireland in 1334 and Lord Chancellor of n1iles north-west from Colchester, 6 north-east from England 1340-41, ob. 1349, and B~rtholomew his grand Jlraintree, 8 south-west from Sudbury, 15 from Haverhill son, 3rd Baron Bouchier, ob. 1409, with brasses to him and 56 by rail or 47 by road from London: in the Eastern se:f and his two wives Margaret (Sutton) and Idonea division of the county, Hinckford hundred, South Hinck (Lovey): there are two altar tombs with recumbent :ford petty sessional division, rural deanery of Ralstead, effigies- of armed knights and their wives, supposed to :archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of St. Albans. belong to this family, one of the tombs being canopied; The town is managed by a Local Board of Health of nine monuments to Edmund King, ob. 1624 and the Rev. :members, formed December 3, 1852, and elected by the John Manistre M.A. d. 1826 and a brass to Elizabeth, :ratepayers; it was thoroughly drained in 1864-5, when wife of John Watson, ob. 1604: in the· north aisle are -waterworks were established, a good supply of pure water marble monuments to Sir Samuel Tryon kt. and baronet, being obtained from an artesian well 300 feet deep and ob. March 8, 1626; George Brooke and his wife, ob. -stored in a reservoir of red brick, constructed near the 1770; James Scarlett, d. 1807; Elizabeth Holmes, spin o()ld works and capable of holding 84,ooo gallons of water: ster, d. 1783 and a brass to Samuel Fiske, d. :1:718 and a new well was sunk at Parson's bridge in 1890, there is a memorial window, erected ip. r89r, to James to a depth of 254 feet, and a pumping station built Brewster esq.: the south aisle retains a piscina: in 1845 :at a cost of about £8,ooo : the town is lighted with the church was restored and decorated at a cost of more gas by a company whose works, erected in 1835, than [5,ooo: in 1882 an organ chamber was built and a :are in Rosemary lane. The church of St. Andrew, new organ erected at a cost of £850, and in 1893 a -standing on the top of the hill on and around which pane[ed reredos of oak and mahogany was erected from -the town stands, is a large building of flint with designs by Sir Arthur Blomfield kt. M.A., A.R.A., F.S.A.: -stone dressings, in the Decorated and Perpendicular there are sittings for Boo persons. The register dates styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of six from the year 1564. The living is a vicarage, average tithe l>ays, aisles, north and south porches and a western tower rent charge £341, gross yearly value [326, net [210, with 3 with crocketed pinnacles, containing a clock with chimes acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of and 6 bells dated 1573, 1589, 1633, 1700 and 1755: in St. Albans, and t_.eld since 1886 by the Rev. Thomas the chancel, which has been refl.oored, are three stained George Gibbons M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Holy windows, one of which is a memorial to Jacob Brewster Trinity is an ecclesiastical parish at the west end of the esq. and another to John Carmichael esq. ; here is also town, formed June 3, 1844: the church is a structure of a brass to the Rev. Arthur Charles Page M.A. : the flint, with stone facings, in the Early English style and consists of chance~ ,clerestoried nave of six bays, aisles, chief feature of interest- in the church is the eastern-
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