270 RADWINTER. ESSEX. [KELLY's Swann Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Underwood William, blacksmith Woodley Daniel, farmer, Godfreys Thurban Wltr. frmr. New House frm Willings David, farmer Bulls farm Turner John, blacksmith Willings Edward, Plough P.H RAINHAM (from ryne, a watercourse, and ham, a Rev. Henry George Roche LL.B. of St. John's College-, village) is a village and parish, with a station on the Cambridge, who is non-resident; the Rev. Charles Rich. London, Tilbury and Southend railway, 3~ miles north- Nelson Burrows, curate-in-charge since 1891: th& west from Purfleet, 12 by rail from London, 7~ north- brilliant satirist and poet, Charles Churchill, of Trinity west from Grays and 5 east from Barking, in the South College, Cambridge, was once curate here, and in Eastern division of the county, Orsett petty sessional describing in verse the effect of his rural discourses, division, Chafford hundred, Romford union and county says : " Sleep at my bidding crept from pew to pew.•~ court district, and in the rural deanery of Chafford, Here is an undenominational chapel, built in r88g. In archdeacomy of Essex and diocese of St. Albans; the accordance with the directions of various ancient bene­ village forms a considerable street on the London road factions, bread is given to the poor every Sunday; ros. and the Ingerbourne brook. Over the latter is a for preaching a sermon on Ascension day, 2s. to the bridge, and there are several quays on the creek, at its reader of the Litany and rs. for the parish clerk on th& junction with the Thames. The church of SS. Helen and same day. Capt. Robert Westley Hall-Dare, of New­ Giles (the only one in England dedicated to these saints town Barry House, eo. Wexford, who is lord of the manor, jointly ;in this order) is an ancient structure of flint and H. G. Crosse esq. and Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard hart. stone of the 12th century, and consists of chancel, nave, of Belhus, Romford, are the principal landowners. The aisles, south 'porch and a low but massive embattled soil is loamy; subsoil, gravelly. The chief crops are tower containing 3 bells, one dated r6r8 and the others vegetables, great qauntities of which are grown for the r67o: the nave is divided from the aisles by three heavy London markets. The area is 3,240 acres of land and semicircular arches on either side, resting on square 145 water; rateable value, [,ro,oro; the population in columns, with circular shafts at the angles: a grand r89r was r,669. Norman arch, highly enriched with chevron moulding, Parish Clerk, William Gentry. opens into the chancel, the windows of which have been Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office greatly disfigured: the tower is constructed of coursed (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Essex added). rubble, with ashlar coigns, and is entered from the nave -Hartley J·ennings, sub-postmaster. Deliveries at by a plain semicircular Norman arch, one tall lancet and 7 & rr.ro a.m.; dispatched to London direct at n.25 three Norman windows lighting its basement: on the a. m. 5· 15 & 9.40 p.m.; & at 5·45 p.m. via Romford; south side of the chancel is a narrow priest's doorway sundays, delivery 7.30 a.m.; dispatch 9.30 p.m of Norman date: the font is ancient and there are brass A School Board of 5 members was formed for this parish effigies on the floor to a civilian and his wife, c. rsoo. in 1893; William Smith, North street, Romford, clerk '!'he registers date regularly from the year r665, but to the board; William Richard Farrow, Cowper road, about r89o earlier registers dating from 1570, but Rainham, attendance officer very incomplete, have been discovered and restored. School (mixed & infants), built in 1872, for 245 children; The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent--.:harge £327, average attel'ldance, r65 boys & girls & 77 infants; with 4 acres of glebe and residence (rebuilt by W1llium Sutcliffe Hales Jennings, master; Mrs. Amelia Finch esq. in r7ro ), in the gift of the trustees of the late J ennings, mistress John Godsalve Crosse esq. and held since 1847 hy the Railway Station, John Goodman, station master Brady Rev. Nicholas M.A. (rector of Farrow George, boot maker Maskell Jeremiah, draper & grocer Wennington), Rainham hall Gregory Geo. butcher, Wennington rd Mitchell Edward, farmer & miller~ Burrows Rev. Charles Rich Nelson Harris Frederick, blacksmith Gerpins (postal address, Upminster) (curate in charge), Vicarage Hempleman Frederick S. & Co. manu- Parker Charles, hair dresser Fowles James, South hall facturers of artificial manures; Parker Lewis Edwin, boot maker Randall Edward, Brick house works, Rainham Ferry Parker Sidney Ernest, grocer Shepherd Thomas, Melville road Hennessey Mary Richards (Mrs.), Parsons Jane (Mrs.), tailor Stoker John William, Melville road shopkeeper Randall & Fowles, farmers & market Swami. Henry, Bright's Hill Caroline (Mrs.), grocer & dairy gardeners Tuylor William Robert, Berwick house Hill Mary Ann (Miss), linen draper Rogers Charles, Angel inn Wright Mrs. l\Ielville road Howell William James, builder Salmon & Co. Lim. chemical manu- COMMERCIAL. Howgego Waiter Wm. wheelwright facturers & tar distillers, Ferry roaRochford, 2~ miles in-charge since r883. Here is a Congregational chapel,. west from Wickford station on the Southend branch of and one for the Peculiar People. Sir John Henry John­ the Great Eastern railway, 3 east from Billericay, a south son, of St. Osyth's Priory, Colchester, who is lord of the from Chelmsford, ro east from Brentwood and 27 from manor, and Messrs. Brunwin, Berens, Grey, Lucas, London; it is in the Mid division of the county, Barstabla Hatchman and Arthur Helsham-Jones esq. of Pinner hundred, petty sessional division and county court dis~ Hill, Watford, are the principal landowners. The soil trict I of Brentwood, union of Billericay, rural deanery of is strong, heavy and mixed; subsoil clay; on the sides of Ingatestone, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of St. the hil1 the land is light and gravelly loam. Wheat is Albans. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building chiefly grown. The area is 2,693 acres; rateable value,. of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, [,2,492; the population in r8gi was 395· nave, south porch and a western tower with shingled Parish Clerk, John Sutton. spire, containing 3 bells : the church was entirely rebuilt in r88o-I, at a cost of about [,85o, raised by public sub- Post Oflice.-Charles Stanley, sub-postmaster. Letters scriptions. The register of baptisms and burials dates arrive from Brentwood via Billericay at 9·45 a.m. &. from 1562; ; marriages from 1565. The living is a rectory 5·45 p.m. ; dispatched at 5·45 p.m. No post on annexed to that of Stock, average tithe rent-charge,£666; sundays. The nearest money order & telegraph office joint net yearly value, [,4so, with 57 acres of glebe, in the is at Billericay. Postal orders are issued here but gift of the trustees of Mrs. E. P. Gibson, and held since not paid 1877 by the Rev. Edward Pendarves Gibson B.A. St. Church School (mixed), built about 1872, for 8o children;. Peter's College, Cambridge, who resides at Stock. The average attendance, so Coryn Sidney COMMERCIAL. Cooper Samuel, farm bailiff to Sir J- Nottley Rev. William George Clutton Biggs George, shopkeeper H. Johson J.P. Park farm (curate in charge) Bull William W. farmer Jackson Emma (Mrs.), farmer Westwood Edward Thomas Henwood John, farmer Me0 Joseph, farmer