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Great Chesterford 1848 Whites Directory CHESTERFORD ( GREAT) is a large village, pleasantly situated on the Newmarket road, and on the east side of the river Granta, or Cam, and the North-Eastern Railway, on which it has a station, adjoining Cambridgeshire, 4 miles N.N.W. of Saffron Walden. Its parish contains 917 souls, and 2811 acres … Read more
Birchanger 1848 Whites DirectoryBIRCHANGER, a small village and parish, 2 miles E.N.E. of Bishop Stortford, contains 386 souls, and 1051 acres of land, mostly belonging, with the manor and the patronage of the rectory, to the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford, to which it was granted by Edward III. N. Micklethwaite, Esq., and … Read more
Arkesden 1848 Whites Directory ARKESDEN, a pleasant village on the banks of a rivulet, 5 miles S.W. of Saffron Walden, has in its parish 498 souls, and 2300 acres of land, exclusive of roads. R. B. Wolfe, Esq., who has a handsome seat here called Wood Hall, owns most of the soil, and is lord … Read more
Uttlesford Hundred 1848 Whites Directory UTTLESFORD HUNDRED Is in the north-western angle of Essex, and extends northward from Bishop- Stortford and Dunmow turnpike, to the extremity of Great Chesterford parish, a distance of 16 miles, but it varies from ten to less than five miles in breadth. It is traversed from south to north by … Read more
Wivenhoe 1848 Whites directoryWIVENHOE, a large and respectable village, 3 miles S.S.E. of Colchester, is seated on a picturesque acclivity, on the north – east side of the Colne, at the point where that navigable river begins to expand into a broad estuary, of which the higher parts of the village command a fine prospect, … Read more
Wickham Bishops 1848 Whites Directory WICKHAM BISHOPS, a pleasant scattered village, on the borders of Tiptree Heath, 3 miles S.S.E. of Witham, and 3 miles N. of Maldon, has in its parish 544 souls, and 1534A. 2R. 23P. of land, extending westward to the Maldon and Braintree Railway, and the river Blackwater, and crossed by … Read more
Little Totham 1848 Whites Directory TOTHAM (LITTLE) is a parish of scattered houses, 3 miles N.E. of Maldon, and contains 384 souls, and 1144 acres of land, extending about two miles south from the church, to Chigborough farm, and the low marshes on the north shore of the broad estuary of the Blackwater, of which … Read more
Great Totham 1848 Whites Directory TOTHAM (GREAT) is a widely-scattered village, with many good houses, from 3 to 4 miles N. by E. of Maldon, and its parish comprises 786 souls, and 3322A. of land, rising from the vale of the Blackwater, and extending northward to Broad Street Green, Tiptree Heath, and the lofty summit … Read more
Tolleshunt Knights 1848 Whites Directory TOLLESHUNT KNIGHTS is a parish of scattered houses mostly on high ground, 7 miles N.E. of Maldon, and 11 miles S.S W. of Colchester. It includes part of Tiptree Heath, and contains 313 souls , and 1927 acres of land, in two manors. The soil is chiefly a tenacious red … Read more
Tolleshunt Major 1848 Whites Directory TOLLESHUNT MAJOR, or BECKINGHAM parish, has a village of the latter name, on a gentle eminence nearly half amile N.W. of the Church, and 5 miles N.E. by E. of Maldon. It contains 447 souls, and 2156 acres of land, watered by a rivulet, flowing southward to the Blackwater. The … Read more