DIRECTORY.] ESSEX. CHI.NGFORD. 93 CHINGFOBD is a village and parh,h agreeably situ­ of £400, £2! per cents.) by John, Ann and Rebecca ated between the river Lee and , and is Popplewell, and the produce of one acre and three­ the best place from which to visit the remaining beauties quarters of land in Marsh, by Thomas Boothby of that district ; it takes its name from a ford over the esq.; Mrs. Harriet Waters left, in I892, a sum of Ching, on the east bank of which rivulet it is seated, on £I8o I4s. ud. invested in consols: these benefactions high ground overlooking the valley of the Lee and on the are distributed to the poor in coals and bread. Hawk­ road to Waltham Abbey, and is the terminus of the wood, the seat of Sidney Cooper esq. is a mansion of and Chingford branch of the Great Eastern brick in the Elizabethan style, standing in a park of 25 railway, tol miles by rail from : it anciently acres. Mount Echo is the residence of Shepperd Thomas belonged to the Chapter of St. Paul's, London, to which Taylor esq. and Friday Hill the residence of Mrs. it was confirmed by King Edward the Confessor, and is Heathcote. Mrs. Heathcote, of Friday Hill, is lady of in the Epping division of the county, Waltham hundred, Chingford Earls manor, and :Miss Hodgson of Chingford Waltham Abbey county court district, Epping union, and St. Paul manor. The principal landowners are Mrs. in the rural deanery of Barking, archdeaconry of Essex Heathcote, S. T. Taylor esq. of Mount Echo, and the and diocese of St. Albans : it is within the jurisdiction Corporation of the , and there are several of the Central Criminal court and the Metropolitan smaller owners. An horticultural show is held here police, and the village is lighted with gas by the Chig­ annually in July. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The well, Loughton and Woodford Gas Co. and supplied chief crops are tares, beans, peas, roots and grass land. with water by the East London Water Works Co. the The area is 2, 7S I acres of land and 40 of water ; rate­ pumping station, erected in I884, being in Chingford able value, £I6,598; the population in I89I was 2,737. lane. The old church of All Saints, situated on the brow CHINGFORD HATCH is a hamlet I mile to the south­ of the hill, overlooking the Lee, is an ancient building ~ast. St. Anne's mission room here, erected in 18go, is of flint and stone, the earlier portion being Early English an iron building, seating I5o, and services are conducted and the latter parts of Perpendicular character, and on Sunday afternoon by the clergy of the parish, and being covered with ivy is a very picturesque object : there is also a Wesleyan chapel, built in I862, and seating it consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch 8o persons. and a western tower with plain parapet : the nave is now Parish Clerk, George Bartrip. unglazed, desolate, and disused, but the chancel is still preserved and partially xestored; in the chancel are Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. some fine Jacobean monuments to the Leigh and Boothby -Stephen Pettit, postmaster. Letters dispatched ro families and to Sir J. Sylvester kt. recorder of the city a.m. I.3o, S & 9.30 p.m. except sat. ; sundays 9 p.m.; of London, as well as to John Heathcote esq. I79S and delivered at 7-IS a.m. 2.I5, 6.I5 & 9 p.m. Parcels John Hamilton Moore, the hydrographer, ob. Oct. 3I, dispatched at IO a.m. & 1.30 & 8 p.m I807. Wall Letter Boxes Chingford Hatch, cleared at 8.45 The church of SS. Peter and Paul, on Chingford green, a.m. 1, 4· IS & 8. IS p.m. ; sat. excepted; sun. 8.4S p.m. : in the centre of the village, erected in I844, is an edifice Cemetery gates, cleared 9 a.m. 4· Io & 8 p.m. ; sat. of white brick and flint, in the Decorated style, consist­ excepted: Railway station, cleared 9 a.m. t.Is, 4.30 ing of chancel, nave and an embattled western tower & 8 p.m. sat. excepted; sundays, 9 p.m. : & Low st. with spire cor.taining 3 bells, dated I6oo, and a clock : cleared I0.30 a.m. 4-IS & saturdays excepted, 7 p.m.; the interior was renovated in I883: the stained east sundays 8.50 p.m. : Crescent rd. cleared 9 a.m. 1. 10, window has been inserted as a memorial, and there 4.20 & 8.20 p.m. except sat. ; sun. 9 p.m. : Endle­ are two others : the font was formerlv• in All Saints bury road, cleared I2.40, 4· 10 & 8 p.m. ; sat. excepted; church. The register of marriages dates from I72I: sun. 8.50 p.m.: Chingford road, cleared 8.IS a.m. baptisms and burials from I7IS. The living is a rectory, 12.so, 4 & 7.40 p.m. ; sat. excepted; sun. 8.30 p.m gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £s6s, net Pillar Box, The Green, cleared 9 a.m. 1.20, 4.30 & 8 £300, with IS acres of glebe and residence, in the gift p.m.; sundays 9 p.m of the trustees of the late R. B. Heathcote esq. and held since I878 by the Rev. Alfred Francis Russell M.A. Schools:- of University College, Oxford. A parish room was National (Mixed), built in I872, & enlarged in I893, erected, in I89o, in High street. The Congregational with master's house, at a cost of £I,soo, the site being chapel in Buxton road, built in I8go, will seat 400, and given by R. B. Heathcote esq.; it will hold 210 there is a mission room in Low street. The Plymouth children; average attendance, I8o; Bruce Cook, master Brethren have a place of worship in King's Head hill, Infants', built in I856 & enlarged in I886, for 8a built in I88o, and seating ISO. An obelisk, erected by children; average attendance, 6I ; Miss M. Reed, the Ordnance Survey, on high ground north-east of the mistress church, is maintained at the desire of the authorities of Station, The Green, erected in IBB7 Greenwich Observatory: it is due north along the (N Division), Edward J ohnson, sergeant in charge, Ill'eridian line, and is occasionally used for the verification and 4 sergeants, I acting sergeant, and IO constables of astronomical observations. The cemetery at Chingford l\lasonic Lodges held at the Royal Forest hotel:­ Mount, belonging to the Abney Park Cemetery Co. Lim. Chigwell Lodge, No. 453; Geo. Wm. Corble, I2 was opened on Saturday, May 24, 1884: it is 78 acres in Finsbury circus, London E C sec.; saturdays nearest extent, and contains two lodges in the Early English full moon in May, June, July & August, at 3 p.m style and a chapel. Across the green, north-east from Brooke Lodge, No. 2005 ; J. R. J ohnson, I Second St. Peter's church, is Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, where avenue, Manor park E, sec.; 3rd friday in May, June, manor courts used to be held : it is a picturesque half­ July, August & September timbered house of three stmeys, with some good Philbrick Lodge, No. 2255; R. A. Board, 42 Barnsdale panelled oak rooms, one of which, on the first floor, is road, St. Peter's park W sec.; Ist thursday in April, hung with tapestry; the upper floor consists of one May, June, July & October, at 4 p.m large apartment, 40 by 25 feet, with an open-timbered Warner Lodge, No. 22s6; W. Shurmur, Prospect house, roof: under the Epping Forest Preservation Act of I878, Clapton, sec.; 2nd tuesday in February, April, October this structure, as " an object of antiquarian interest," is & December, at 5 p.m kept in repair by the Corporation of London, and is open Royal Arch Masons Chapter of Hope & Unity. Ko. to the public daily free of charge. Near the lodge is 214; George Cooper, The Cedars, Brentwood, scribe "'Connaught Water," a rural lake, and Bury and Hawk E.; first friday in May & July woods, portions of the Forest, much frequented by Brooke Chapter, No. 2005; J. Sadler \Yood, 35 Coleman naturalists. At Mansfield hill is a sewage pumping st. London E C scribe E. ; 2nd friday in June & October station, built in I894, and belonging to the Epping William Shurmur Lodge, No. 2374; Thomas J. Railing, "Rural Sanitary Authority. Here are S almshouses, Colchester, sec.; 3rd thurs. in May, July & October ~rected in I8S9 by voluntary subscriptions and enlarged Carrier to London, Alfred James Henn, mon. wed. & fri in I887. The charities amount to £22 yearly, arising Railway Station, Arthur B. Stagg-s, station master from £3 yearly each bequeathed in IS85 by Robert Conveyance.-Coach from Royal Forest hotel,. to different Ramston and Thomas Boothby; £II a year (the int~rest parts of the forest twice daily during the season PRIVATE BESIDENTS. Badger W'illiam, II Warren road Beeching Waiter, 6 Warren road Adams Thomas, Q Hawkswood villas, Bailey Mrs. Hollybush villa, Chingford Bell Edwin, Strathbogie, Station rd King's Head hill Hatch Bennett John Rayner, ~Ieadowcroft, Adamson )lrs. Rathelpie, High st &ll John, Beech house, Forest side Chingford road Ainslie )liss, The Rolls, Hinir·s green Banwell Edmund, I Hawkswood villas, Bevans George Ernest L. Faircourt, Armstrong }lrs. Grasmere house, King-'s Head hill The Drive High street Barr .Andw. W. Terryglen, The Drive Big-g Charles, l\Iaud rula, Station rd Ashton Edmund Gerald Bramleigh, Bnrafet William Henry, The Cottage, Binns Charles Fergus, 3 Hawkswood The Drive I Chingford road villas, King's Head hill