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Dent Thomas, jun. butcher Mayes John, farm~r &; landowner Reading Room & Working Men's Club Ellis Ambrose, barge owner :'.Iercer Arthur Wyatt, surgeon, .Ad- (John G. Hinnell, sec) Emeney William Joseph, watch maker miralty surgeon & agent, & cert1- Rolfe IEaac John, nurseryman, florist Evans & Co. grocers & drapers fying factory surgn. medical officer & fruit grower Fitch George, beer retailer & public vaccinator for the Stanford- Smith George, shopkeeper Frostick Charlotte Emily (Mrs.), le-Hope district of Orsett union Smith Percy H. farmer grocer & baker Miners (The) Safety Explosives Co. Squier & Hinnell, machinists Frostick Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer & Limited (Henry Wilcox, manager), Stanford Henry Charles, saddler & draper manufacturers of blasting explosives harness maker, fur:irishing iron- Gentry John, carpenter Nash Frederick, sh?e maker, shop- monger & upholsterer, Victoria rd Green John, clothier, draper, grocer, keeper & beer retailer Sullings Thomas, builder & undertkr & Post office Nash William, shoe maker Tompkins Edwin Osborne, farmer Hunting Horace, plumber Parren William Henry, schoolmaster Tracy James Matthews, farmer & Thames Haven Petroleum Pease John, King's Head P.H 'Vackrell John, shoe maker Co. Limited (Richard Easterbrook, Phillips James, grocer, Victoria road Wallace Waiter, station master supt. ), petroleum importers Pipe Emma (Mrs.), Railway tavern Wright William, butcher is supposed to have derived gational chapel. The Ongar union workhouse is in this its name from a stony ford through the ; . A charity of £400 left by Mary Rayner in the addition, "Rivers," being derived from the family 1871 is invested in India 5 per Cents, and the interest of that name who resided here in 1213; it is a widely is annually distributed in c~othing to the poor of the scattered parish, om. the London road, 3 miles south- parish. The principal landowners are Sir Cecil Clementi west from Ongar station of a branch of the Great East- Smitli G.C.M.G. who is lord of the manor, Capt. Geo. ern railway, 7 south-east from Epping and 19 from Edward Capel Cure, of 20 Eaton square, London S W London, in the Western division of the county, Ongar j and Thomas Wilson esq. The soil is clay or heavy hundred, petty sessional division and union, Brentwood · loam; subsoil, c!ay, gravel or sand. The chief crops county court district, rural deanery of ", are wheat, barlev, beans &c. The area is 4,402 acres archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of St. Albans. The of 1and and 12 water; rateable value, £4,809; the church of St. Margaret is a plain building of stone, 1 ponulation in 1891 was 982, including 140 officers and chiefly in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, inmates in Ongar workhouse. nave, and a western tower of wood, with spire, and LITTLEBURY is 1 mile east from the church. TOOT containing 2 bells : in the south wall of the nave is a HILL is z miles north-west. brass, with kneeling figures of a lady and six chil- Parish Clerk, James Woolmore. dren and an inscription to "Anne Napper, late the Post Office. Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson, sub-post- wife of William Napper, gent. and daughter of William mistress. Letters from Romford arrive at 8 a.m.; Shelton esq. ob. 1584 :" in the chancel is another brass, de:ivered at 8.15 a.m.; dispatched at 5·55 p.m. t.o "Catherine Mvlcaster, wife of Charles Mv:caster," Passingham Bridge is the nearest money order office to whom she was married so years, ob. 1609: there is & the nearest telegraph office. Postal also a brass with effigy to Thomas Greville, infant, orders are issued here, but not paid ob. 1492, another to Robert Barrow esq. ob. 1503; Post Office, Toot HilL-Frank Herbert Garrett, sub- and figures of a man in armour and his wife, c. 1540: postmaster. Letters arrive from Ongar S.O. at 7.15 the Petres were formerly large proprietors here, and a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The nearest money there are many flat stones in the chancel inscribed to order & telegraph office is at Ongar members of this family: several members of the Stuart Wall Letter Box, cleared at 8.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; sun- family, Earls and Marquises of Bute, were buried here, days, at 10,5 a.m but with the exception of two they have been removed Chipping Ongar Union Workhouse, Rev. Samuel Goode to Roath in Gla~~rga!lshire. The registe~ dates from the Hore of Navestock, chaplain; Matthew Henry Grattan year 1538. The hvmg IS a rectory, average rent-charge L.R.C.P. Irel. medical officer; Robert Wil:iam Low, £776, net yearly value £616, with 52 acres of and master; Mrs. Ellen Low, matron residence, in the gift of the Chancellor of the Duchy of National School (mixed), built in 1850, for 190 chil- Lancaster, and held since 1868 by the Rev. Robert Rol- dren; average attendance, q6; Henry Newmarch, leston B. A. of University College, Oxford. Here is a Congre- master; Mrs. Jane Newmarch, mistress Barnett Col. Charles, St. John Freeman John S. jun. farmer & cattle !Read William, shoe maker, Toot Hill Low Francis George Robert, Stan- dealer, The Lawns & Traceys Richardson Richard, poultry dealer ford house Lane George, shopkeeper Sawkins George, shopkeeper, TootHill Rolleston Rev. Robert B.A. Rectory McConnell Primrose, farmer, Ongar Smith Peter, farmer, Steers & Does COMMERCIAL. Park hall Staines Stephen, wheelwght. TootHill Betts William, shopkeeper l\Iillbank Charles Alfred, farmer, Bur- Surridge Daniel; miller (wind), Toot Brown Joseph, blacksmith rows & Clark's farms, Toot Hill Hill mill Christy David, farmr. Stanford Rivers ~Iillbank William Appleby, Widows Tanner Jane (Mrs.), White Bear P.H hall farm, Toot Hill Thompson Theodore,registrar of births Cottee William, boot & shoe maker ~Iugleston Robt. B. farmer, Littlebury & deaths & relieving & vaccination Crouch James, farmer, Freeman's fm Mumford John, farmer, Toot Hill officer for Chipping Ongar sub-dist Downham Joseph, boot & shoe maker Murton Emily (Mrs.), beer retailer Tucker James, hay carter Edwards Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Owers Charles, Green Man P.H. & Waltham Richard, farmer, l\Iitchell's Freeman & Palmer, farmers, Toot hill baker, Toot Hill farm Freeman J'ohn, cattle dealer & farmer, Palmer James, farmer, Bridge farm Westwood ·wm. carpenter, Toot Hill Murrell's farm Plummer Julian, farmer, Toot Hill White Ellen (Miss), farmer, Ber- Hartgrove Danl. poultry dlr. Toot Hill Piggott Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer retlr wick farm is a village and is an inscription to Robert de Bokkyngg, first vicar of parish, on the Roman and modern high road from this church, ob. Sept. 22, 1361; and against the south London to Cambridge, and close to the , on wall of the chancel is a fine marble monument, under a a tributary of which it stands, and has a station on highly decorated arch, to Sir Thomas ~Iiddleton kt. the main line of the , 3 miles with his recumbent effigy clad in plate armour fastened north from Bishop's StortfOTd 3Jld 33~ from London, with gilt studs and covered with a red robe trimmed in the Northern division of the county, hun- with fur, but the inscription is nearly illegible: there dred, Bishop's Stortford union and county court dis- is also a monument to his wife, Lady :\Iiddleton, who trict, Walden petty sessional division, rural deanery of was killed by a stag in Stansted Park, with a simi:ar :Newport, archdeaconry of and diocese of St. recumbent effigy: under a large pointed arch in the .Albans. The parish is one of the largest in Essex and north aisle of the chancel, is the figure in stone of a is computed to be nearly 40 miles in circumference. mailed knight, cross-legged, with his feet upon a couchant The village, one side of which is in the hamlet of Ben- lion and two angels supporting his helmeted head: field, consists of two streets, and is partillily lighted the church was restored and enlarged in 1888 by sub­ with gas. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a large scription at a coost of £s,ooo, and has 6oo sittings. structure of flint with stone dressings, in mixed styles, The register dates from the year 155 8. The living is consisting of chancel, built in 1120, nave, north chapel, a discharged vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £228, south porch and a western tower of brick erected in net yearly va~ue £207, with 2 acres of glebe and resi- 1692, and containing 5 bells: the fabric retains two dence, in the gift of vV. Fuller-Maitland esq. M.P. and very fine Norman arches, one in the chancel and another held since 1891 by the Rev. George Thomas Yalentine over the north doorway: on the floor of the chancel, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church of on a small brass plate in the cover of a coped stone, St. John, erected in 1889 on a site given by Francis