(.] KELVEDON. 96 POST OFFICE Allistone Henry, shopkeeper Hall & Son, silk throwsters Surridge Joseph Smitb, .farmer, In· .Austin Geor~e, boot & shoe maker Haward Philip, blacksmith worth hall :Banham Robert, brickmaker & farmer Hewes Thomas, farmer Surridge Joeeph Smith & Sons, auc- :Birkin William, boot & shoe maker Hntley Henry, blacksmith tioneers, land & estate agents, & Brett Thomas, gardener & seedsman Rice James, beer retailer agents to the Royal Exchange & Sun :Brown Bdward, beer retailer Ro~gers Peter, farmer fire & life offices, Inworth hall &; Chaplin Samuel, 'Ship' Sach .William, farmer Clark Tl10mas, farmer Sach William, jun. butcher Turpin Thomal'l, hutcher ])ennis JameR, farmer Shave James Mayhew, farmer Letters through Kelvedon, which is Drane Isaac, beer retailer Simpson Thomas, wheelwright also the nearPst money order office INSURANCE AGENTs.-Roynl Exchange Fire~ Lqe, ~ Church, Rev. Samuel Wix, M.A. rector; Rev. William Sun Fire~ Life,Joseph S. Surridge & Sons, Inworth hall Way, B. A. curate & Halstead XELVEDON.-KRLVEDON near , or Kelvedon have recently erected a commodious chapel, and the So­ station, is an ancient place, which belonged to King Edward ciety of Friends 11 ave a meeting-llouse. There is a Literary the Confessor, and consists of a street, lighted with gas, Institution and Reading-room, well supported. There is a .about a mile in length, standing partly on rising ground, National school with 120 scholars, endowed with £55 per ·on the north-western bank of the river Blackwater, on annum; and an Infant school; also a British school with the Eastern Counties () Railway, of which it about 60 scholars. There are charities amounting to £12 per ]sa railway and telegraph station, and on the ancient and annum. Felix Hall, or Filiol's Hall, is the seat of Thomas main road from London to Colchester. It is in Witbam Burch Western, Esq., and stands about a mile off; it is a Union and Hundred, the archdeaconry of Colchester and neat modern building, is elegantly fitted up, and has a fine diocese of Rochester, 4 miles north-east of Witbam, 41;1 view over the valley of the river Blackwater, and stands in a from London, 12~ north-east from , 9! south­ fine park. 'I'he massacre of the Danes commenced here; a west from Colchester, 6 south-east from Braintree, 8 silver ring was found with the Danish initials. Williarn Ill. north-east from J\faldon, 3 south from and 10 was here in 1691, and again in 1692, when he slept at south from Halstead, and contains an area of 3,167 acres, the Angel Inn. Kelvedon is divided into two manors; the and a population, in 1851, of 1633. A pleasure fair is Bishop of London and T.B. Western, Esq., are the lords of held every year on Easter lVIonday. The church is a stone the manors. T. B. Western, Esq., is the chieflandowner. building, with nave, aisles, chancel and font, of the pointed The land is arable and light subsoil gravel. There art- two style oCarchitecture. It is dedicated to theVirgin 1\'Iary,and extensive classical and commercial academies here; Kel­ was given by King Edward the Confessor to Westminster vedon School, conducted by Mr. W. 'Viseman, and Bruns­ .Abbey. It has a square brick tower, with 5 bells and wick House Academy by Mr. R. Willis. Five and a half clock. Tqe interior has undergone considerable improve­ miles from the railway station is Model Farm, the ment. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Bishop residence ofJ.J. 1\iechi, Esq. ()f Rochester, value £403 per annum, with residence and GoRE PITs, in Feering parish, is a suburb of Kelvedon, 54 acres of glebe. The Rev. Charles Dalton, M.A., is the on the other side of the Blackwater, over which is a bridge. vicar; the Rev. D. F. Vigers, 1\I.A., curate; the Bishop of It is supposed to have taken its name from a battle . London is the impropriator, and T. B. Western, Esq., of fought there. Pelix Hall, is the episcopal lessee. The Independents , GENTRY. Butler Thomas, f), mis. of National sch :Belcham George, miller GouldJames, seed~man Ruffie John, farmer .Belch am John, beer retailer Green George Robert, baker Sach Thomas Cook, baker Belcbem Thomas, cattle dealer Gunn Hezekiah, fishmonger Sadler Isaae, eabinet maker & stationer Bird James, tailor Harris William, boot & shoemaker Sansum Sa mson, tailor :Birdseye J obn, baker&: confectioner Harwood Sarah (Mi~s), dressmaker Shepherd Aaron, bricklayer .131omfield Bezabel, corn dealer Hellen Misses, seminary Siggers Hry.& Wm. blders. &brklayers :Braddy William & Jabez, carpenters, Higgleton Susan (1\Ir~.), carrier Siggers John, saddler & grocer cabinet makers & turners Holme Henry, master of British school Siggers William, maltster lbitton Thomas, fruiterer Hughes 1.\