Great Saling 1848 Whites Directory
SALING (GREAT) is a neat village, on an eminence, 5 miles N.W. by W. of Braintree, built round a large and pleasant green, shaded by rows oftall elms, forming an avenue to the church and the hall, where a highly pleasing and extensive prospect is presented. Its parish contains 349 souls, and 1651 acres of fertile land, having a hilly surface, rising from the small river Brain. Mrs. A. M. Fowke is lady of the manor of Great Saling Hall, and has a handsome modern seat here, called Saling Grove, standing in a well wooded park ; but a great part of the parish belongs to Guy’s Hospital, the Earl of Essex, Mr. Charles Hicks, Mrs. E. Townsend, Mrs. Edwards, and a few smaller owners. The ancient hall is now a farmhouse. The manor was successively held by the Wischard, Bibblesworth, Cotys, Carter, Raymond, and Goodrich families. The executors of the late B. Goodrich, Esq. , sold it to the late W. Fowke, Esq. The estate called Picotts was sold by the Lumleys to Guy’s Hospital. Bleak-End Farm belongs to the Earl of Essex. The Church ( St. James,) is a small, neat structure, with two bells, and was appropriated at an early period to Little Dunmow Priory. The discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £7, and in 1831 at £148, is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. B. Goodrich, M.A., who has a good residence and 8A. of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1839, for the following annual rent-charges : £34 to Guy’s Hospital ; £56.18s. 9d. to the impropriator ; £136 . 15s. 6d. to the vicar; and £35 to the vicar of Felsted. The parish school was built in 1842, by the present vicar. The poor have an annuity of 20s. , left by John Smith, in 1726, out of a house at Great Waltham. They have also the rent of the Town Land, la. 18. 14p., given at an early period, and now let for £4 per annum.
POST OFFICE, at T. Morecraft’s . Letters despatched 4 afternoon, via Braintree.
Adcock Samuel, vict. White Hart
Adcock Thomas, carpenter & builder
Allen Elizabeth, beerhouse – Green Man
Chamberlain Thomas, butcher
Dodd Joseph. shoemaker and parish clerk
Drane William, blacksmith
Fowke Mrs Ann Maria, Saling Grove
Goodrich Rev. Bartlett, M.A., vicar, and rural dean, ( & rector of Hardmead, Bucks. ) Vicarage
Hanmer Charles W. Esq., Grove
Lake Mr. John
Smith Mr. Peter
Morecraft Thomas, grocer & draper
Rallings John Stammers, baker
Ridgewell Benj, wheelwright & agricultural machine maker
White John D. and Lucy, school
FARMERS.
Baldwin William , Onchors
Bateman Robert, Glebe Land
Butcher William, Hickwright’s Farm
Glasscock Sus . Great Saling Hall
Hicks Charles, Woolpits
Hoy Thomas, Bleak End
Salmon John, Picotts
Smoothy William, Kemball, Park
Smoothy William, Freeman, Mutch Moores
Townsend Eliz. Boarded Barns
Willis Charlotte ( & Charles Samuel ) Grove Farm
Willis George, Betts Farm