DIRECTORY.] ESSEX. LANGDON. 225 dates from I555 ; burials and marriages, rss6. The House, Bures. The soil is light land; subsoil, various. liring is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge [,289, The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area ie with 96 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the 935 acres; rateable value, [,r,313; the population in lords of the manor, and held since 1892 by the Rev. 1891 was 196. Edwin Henry Oakley M.A. of Queens' College, Cam- Parish Clerk, Zachariah Potter. bridge. The Rectory house has, under the Divided Letters through Colchester, via Bures, arrive at 7 a.m Parishes Act, been transferred to Alphamstone parish. Wall Letter Box, cleared week days at 7 a.m. & 7. 10 Here is a small Baptist chapel. Charles Brogden p.m.; sundays, ro.55 a.m. The nearest money order Sperling D.L., J.P. esq. of Dynes Hall, Great Maple- & telegraph office is at Bures St. Mary, Suffolk stead, and Christopher Teesdale esq. are lords of the National School (mixed), built in 1875, for 55 children; manor. The principal landowners are the trustees of average attendance, 40; Miss Edith L. English, Edmund Cooke esq. and William Garrard esq. of Brook mistress Goldsmith Mrs Goldsmith Sarah (Mrs.), landowner & Messent Zaccheus, farmer, Street frm Oakley Rev. Edwin Hy. M.A. Rectory farmer Podd William, baker Partridge Waiter Archer, Mill house Howard William, frmr. Bowtells farm Thompson John, Lion P.H Cant Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Shrubs Haywood William, farmer Webber Frederick, maltster & farmer, Cooper Charles, jun. bricklayer Messent Arthur, farmer, Daws hall Newmans LAMBOURNE, mentioned in Domesday, is a parish of Lieut.-Col. Amelius Richard Mark Lockwood M.P., and village, on the road from London to Chipping D.L., J.P. was once the residence of Henry le Despenser, Ongar and on the left bank of the river Roding, 3 miles the warlike bishop of Norwich: this prelate, bred to south-east from Theydon Bois station on the Epping and arms in Italy, in the service of the Pope Adrian, also Ongar branch of the Great Eastern railway, 13! from an Englishman, obtained the bishopric of Norwich as Wnitechapel and Shoreditch, 7 north-by-west from Rom- a reward for his services and held the see from 1730 ford, 8 south-west from Ongar, and 5 south from to 1408; and in the reign of Richard the Second he Epping, in the western division of the county, Ongar suppressed the insurgent rising in the counties of union, hundred and petty sessional division of Epping, Norfolk, Cambridge and Huntingdon against the capita­ county court district of Romford, rural deanery of tion tax levied by parliament: he died in 1409. That Lambourne, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of St. portion of the parish called "Lambourne End" contains Albans. The Essex and Herts Water Company's main all that remains of Hainault Forest, a charming wood­ has been extended to Abridge in this parish. The church land of 314 acres awarded as a parish common by the of St. Mary and All Saints is a very ancient building Inclosure Commissioners in 1862. Lieut.-Col. Lockwood of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel and ~LP. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The nave and a small western turret containing 3 bells: soil is mixed; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat. the north doorway is Norman and the arch is enriched barley and beans. The area is 2,440 acres; rateab~e with billet moulding: in the church is a monument to value, [,4,072; the population in 1891 was 904. the celebrated Thomas Wynnyffe, Bishop of Lincoln 1642-54, and for some time rector of this church ; ABRIDGE is a hamlet on the London road, 1!._ miles here also is buried his father, John Wynnyffe, gent. south-east from Theydon Bois station on the Epping of Sherborne, Dorset, ob. 1630, aged 92: in 1889 the and Ongar branch of the Great Eastern railway. church was reseated, new heating apparatus fixed and Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity, Insurance & Ex­ a new organ erected, the cost being defrayed by Lieut.­ press Delivery Office, Abridge.-Miss Alice Bryant, Col. A. R. M. Lockwood M.P. The register of baptisms ~ostmistress. Letters by mail cart are received dates from 1582; marriages and burials, 1584. The through Romford; arrive at 6.20 a. m.; dispatched living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £455, at 6.25 p.m.; also by conveyance from Romford, net yearly value £346, with 34 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Corpus Christi college, Cam­ arrive at 10.45 a.m. & dispatched at 1.30 p.m. bridge and held since 1893 by the Rev. Charles Alfred Pillar Letter Box, Lambourne, cleared at 1.35 p.m Goodhart M.A. and late scholar of that college. Trinity A School Board of 5 members was formed 4 August, church, at Abridge, a chapel of ease to the parish 1874, for the united district of Lambourne & Stap:e­ church, is a plain edifice of brick, consisting of nave ford Abbots; William Smith, Romford, clerk to the and aisle; it was enlarged in 1877, and an organ was board erected in r88o. Here also is a Congregational chapel. Board School (with- teacher's house), built in 1879, for There are charities amounti:r;~.g to about £30, arising 150 chiluren; average attendance, 125 ;' William from a house and land, for the poor and for repairing the Barlow, master; Miss A. Pittman, mistress ; Miss church. Bishop's Hall, in this parish, now the seat Edith Barlow, assistant mistress LAMBOURNE. ABRIDGE. Dunham Eliza (Mrs.), blacksmith & • Coombes Edmund, Hill side Browne John Miller, Roding house Ironmonger Glyn Egerton John, Priors Davis Albert, Chestnut cottage Flack Abraham, shopkpr. & cab propr Goodhart Rev. Charles Alfred M.A. Hargreaves Percy Handley Wm. blacksmith & beer rtlr Rectory Lawrence Mrs. The Cottage Harris Martin, saddler Lockwood Lieut.-Col. Amelius Richard Thompson James Andw. Baird M.D Hayden George, baker Mark M.P., D.L., J.P. Bishop's hall Hudson William George, carpenter COMMERCIAL. COMMERCIAL. Hurdle Frederick, brewer & maltster Boyd Martha (Mrs.), baker Abridge Brewery Co. (Herbert P. & wine & spirit merchant Crane Samuel, landowner & farmer, Stessiger, manager) Krailing William (Mrs.), bread & bis­ Arnold's farm Abridge Coffee Rooms & Club (Wm. cuit baker Glasse Jas. Fredk. farmer, St. John's Crawley, manager) Moody Thomas, White Hart P.H Glasse John, farmer, Great Down's fro Abridge Cricket Club (Albert Davis, N icholls Alfred John, shopkeeper Kemsley William Joseph, farmer,Lam- secretary) Radford John, Blue Boar family & bourne hall Aldous Henry, tailor commercial hotel Bandall George, farmer, New farm Ancient Order of Foresters' Lodge(A. Stanford John, grocer & draper Saward Jacob, farmer & assistant J. Nicholls, secretary) Thompson James Andrew Baird M.D.~ overseer, Patch park Banner John, drain pipe maker c.~I. surgeon, & medical officer & Tayleur John Fitzgerald, farmer, Bridges James, wheelwright public vaccinator, No. 4 district, Forest lodge Brown ·wm. Forman, brewer, Abridge Ongar union Taylor Thomas, Bee Hive hotel, Lam- Brewery Co Watts George, saddler & harness ma bourne end Bryant Alice (:Miss), Post office Wood John, butcher Taylor William, farmer Dennis Samuel, shopkeeper LANGDON (Laindon Hills or Langdon Hills) is a district, and in the rural deanery of Orsett, archdeaconry village and parish, beautifully situated on one of the of Essex and diocese of St. Albans. The old church highest hills in the county, commanding a splendid view of St. 1\Iary the Virgin and All Saints, situated on the over the Thames and the rich landscapes of Essex and west side of the hill, consists of chancel, nave and north Kent, with a station one mile south on the Tilbury and chapel, but is now used only as a mortuary chapel. Southend railway, 31 miles from London, 9 north-east The parish church of the same name, built in r877, from Tilbury Ferry, 4 north-east from Orsett and 9 on the top of the hill, is an edifice of Kentish ragstons south-east from Brentwood. It is in the South Eastern with Bath stone dressings, in the Early English style, division of the county, Barstable hundred, Orsett union consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, divided from and petty sessional division, Brentwood county court the nave by an arcade of three bays, south porch and ESSEX 15 • .