THE POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OP ESSEX AND HERTFORDSHIRE. WITH MAP ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR THE WORK EDITED BY E. R. KELLY, m.A., P.S.S. LONDON: s PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY KELLY AND CO, 51, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, WJD. i BRANCH OFFICES: BIRMINGHAM: BROAD STREET CORNER.^ I SHEFFIELD CENTRAL CHAMBERS. BI*H'STB*M. MANCHESTER: 28, BROW STREET, ' NEJWOASTLE-ON-TYNE: 2», SIDE. " MDCOCLXXVIII. PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS, FIFTEEN SHILLINGS,—NON-SUB SCRIBBBS, EIGHTEEN SHILLINGS. PRM ACE. THE Proprietors, in submitting to their Subscribers and the Public the %. t .. W . _ present (being the Niiith) Edition of the Six HOME COUNTIES DIRECTORY, m i ' . * * trust that it may be found equal in accuracy to the previous Editions. The contents are similar to those in previous editions—a general account is given of each County ; Lists of Hundreds and Poor Law Unions are included, and also the Polling Places appointed pursuant to " The Ball<> p Act, 1872;" and the Proprietors have been able, for the first time, to add h sketch of the Geological Features of each [County, for which they are indebted to Mr. W. J. Harrison, of the Museum, Leicester. Then follows a List of the Places in each County, alphabetically arranged, with their Inhabitants, both Private Residents and Commercial ; it is stated under each * Parish in what Hundred, Union, and County Court District and Division of the County, as also in what Diocese, Archdeaconry, and Rural Deanery, it is situate ; and the College and University of every Bsneficed Clergyman have been given, as far as they can be ascertained. Very extensive alterations i • have taken place in the Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions.of these Counties since the previous edition—the new Diocese of St. Albans has been formed, comprising X^^fiofiSfeg s of Essex and Herts—the Diocese of Rochester has been greatly changed, giving up tijLe new Diocese of St. Albans and receiving in exchange parts of those of London and Winchester, the parts so added forming the new Archdeaconry of Southwark : there have also been many changes in the Rural Deaneries of Surrey: all these have been duly recorded in this edition. The Post Office Savings Banks and Government Annuity and Insurance Offices have been noticed ; the names of the Parish Clerks are given under each Parish > lists of Farm Bailiffs of Gentlemen farming their own land are inserted ; ine population of each place, from the Census of 1871, is inserted throughout; and the new lines of Kail way, both completed and in course of constructs have been laid down on the Maps, which have been enlarged and correctec up to the present date. b * IV The valfie of the Directory, however, will depend on the fact that it has been most carefully corrected, every parish having been personally visited by again increa^d very eo^ly; the Fifth h I had increased to 1,986 pages ; the Sixth to 2,290 pages ; the Seventh to 2,764 pages , the Eighth contained 2,944 pages ; and ft. present. 3,814 pages: notwithstanding this last increase, noforther addition has been made to the price. In consequence of the great bulk of the Volume it is not proposed to again include the Six Counties in One Volume, but the Three Northern and the Three Southern Counties will in future be published in two separate volumes. * * The Proprietors have again to return their thanks to those Clergymen, ' " j , , . • Magistrates' Clerks, Registrars, and other Gentlemen, who have assisted the Agents while collecting the information. INN LONDON, W.C. November, 1878. uO Qij TiHil AV E£SEX is one of the metropolitan shires and takes its name the Colne, 35 miles long, rises on the northern border near from the commonwealth of the East Saxons (one of the Birdbrook, becomes navigable at Colchester and receiving English hordes which settled in South Britain), and of which the Roman river, flows into the North Sea: the Holland Middlesex, London and Hertfordshire afterwards formed creek falls into the North Sea at Little Holland: the Stour part. After the Euskardians and Celts had been driven out is about 50 miles long, becomes navigable at Sudbury and Essex was held by the Belgic tribe of the Trinobante* until passes the ports of Manningtree and Harwich to the North tbe Roman inroad. Of the Romans it was a great seat and Sea: in the north-west the Cam and Slade brooks pass into here was their city of Caraulodunum. The Weleh, again Cambridgeshire* becoming masters, were driven out by the East Saxons. The shire has much rich meadow ground on the shores The chief clans concerned in the settlement were the Tilling, of the brooks and marsh lands on the friths and creeks. Hailing, Denning, Thurring, Benning, Billing, Horning* On the shore are many marsh island*, like those of Holland; Manning, Totting, Bticking and Dunning, being the same of these Canvey, Foulness, Wallasea, Mersea, Horsea, as those engaged in the settlement of East Anglia. In $23 Havengore and Potton are the greatest. Much of the shore it came under the swav of the West Saxons under Egbert,, is sheltered against the tides and storms by dykes and sea though more than once given up to the Banes. In the great walls. The inland is hilly and well timbered. The highest Civil War Essex sided with the Parliament and formed a hills of the London clay are High Beech, near Waltham powerful federation. Abbey, 760 feet high ; Dan bury, 700 feet high; Tip tree The shire is of an irregular shape, being in its greatest Heath, near Wit ham, 700 feet high and Laindon Hills, length, from north-east to south-west, 63 miles; it contains 620 feet hfeh. 1,533 square miles, or 1,055,133 acres, being the tenth Eng- Essex, of which Chelmsford is the assize town, is included lish shire for size. In 1871 its population was 466,436, being within the South-Eastern Circuit. Part of Becontree hun- an increase of 61,602 over 1861: males, 233,903? females, dred, vi«. Barking, East Ham, West Ham, Little Ilford, 232,533 ; the number of inhabited houses in 1871 was 92,356. Low Ley ton, Walthamstow, Wanstead, Su Mary Wood for J On the, east and south-east the county is bounded by the and Chingford is within the bounds of the Central Criminal North Sea; on the south by the Thames, which flows be- Court, and with Dagenham, Chad we 11 Heath, Waltham tween if arid Rent; on the west by the Lee against Middle- Abbey, Lough ton and Chigwell, under the jurisdiction of sex and by the Stort against Hertfordshire; on the north the Metropolitan Police* by Cambridge and on the north-east by the Stour, separating The shire is ecclesiastically within the recently formed dio- it from Suffolk* Thus there is a navigable belt from Sud- I cese of St Albans and divided into the two archdeaconries bury round by sea and so no Bishop's Stortford. On the of Colchester and Essex, except Ballingdon, a suburb of east the shore is broken by the deep friths and creeks of Sudbury in Suffolk, which is in the diocese of Ely. The the Stonr, Colne, Black water, Crouch and Thames. The Ven. Canon Blomfleld, M.A. vicar of Barking, is the arch- Thames flows from London to the North Sea, having several deacon of Essex, and the Yen. William Brice Ady, M.A. quays, but no great haven on the Essex shore. The Lee, rector of Little Baddow, is archdeacon of Colchester. and its head, the Stort, are navigable, passing through j There are several good towns, as Colchester, Chelmsford, Bishop's Stort ford, Harlow and Waltham Abbey. The Brain tree, Harwich, Maldon, Barking, Saffron Walden, Boding rises in Easton Park, near Dunmow,and flows south Witham, Halstead, Romford and Brentwood, besides, mar- for about 36 miles past On gar to* II ford, where it becomes ket and small towns and about 400 parishes. There are no navigable and, passing Barking, joins the Thames. The cathedrals or great endowments. Bourne brook, 12 miles long, falls into the Thames at Dagen- The county, for parliamentary purposes, was formerly In ham: the Ingerboume rises in South Weald and falls into two divisions, but by " The Representation of tbe People the Thames near Rainham: the Marditch, 12 miles long, forms Act, 1867," it was divided into three, called respectively a creek at Purfleet: the Crouch, 25 miles long, waters south- North-west, North-east and South. " The Boundary Act, east Essex and is navigable from Hull Bridge to the North 1868," altered the names of the first two to West and; East; <Sea; Bum ha HI is its port: the Broomhill is a creek, 10 miles each of the three divisions sends two members to Parliament: long, and navigable for 7 miles to near Rochford : the river the divisions contain the following hundreds:—Eastern— Chelmer, 46 miles long, rising in the north-west near Debden Dengie, Hinckford, Lex den, Tend ring, Thuratable, Winstree and flowing south, parses Dun mo wand Chelmsfordj where it and Witham; Southern—Bars table, Becontree, Chafford, Is made navigable, thence east to Maldon (its port), receiv- Rochfordand the liberty of Havering; Western—Chelms- ing the Ter, 13 miles lonsr, the Wid and Cann, 14 miles long ford, Clavering, Dunmow, Frahwell, Harlow^ Ongar, Ut- and the Sandon B roojc, 10 miles long; near Maldon it joins tlesford and Waltham; the Black water, which* has for its feeder the Podsbrook: There are ttiree Paiiamentary btfmisrhsColchester, 2 ESSEX. [t>OST OFFICE returning two members; Harwich and Mai don formerly (Colchester division), Great Coggeeball .(Witfaaw-division) returned two members, but by " The .Representation of the Great Horkeslsy, Great Tey (JVitham division), Ijnvijrtl People Act, 1867," they now return but one each.