Stebbing 1848 Whites Directory
STEBBING, 3 miles N.E. of Dunmow, is a large straggling village, with many good houses, on the eastern acclivity of a valley, through which a rivulet flows southward to the Chelmer, and has here several mills. It has a fair for fat calves and other cattle, on the 10th of July ; and its parish contains 1458 inhabitants, and 4301 acres of land, including many scattered houses, and the districts called Bran End, 1 mile N., and Stebbing Green and Stebbing Ford, more than a mile S.W. of the church. In old records it is variously called Stabinge, Stobinge, Stibingham, &c. In the Confessor’s reign, it was held by Siward, a Saxon thane ; and at Domesday Survey, by Ralph Peverel and Henry de Ferrers. In the parish is a conical hill, still surrounded by a moat, and said to have been the site of a castle, but there is no historical evidence of such a building. The manor of Stebbing was held by the noble family of Ferrers till the latter part of the 14th century, when their heiress carried it in marriage to the Greys. In 1545, it was sold in exchange to Henry VIII., who exchanged it with Sir Giles Capel, an ancestor of the Earl of Essex, the present lord of the manor and owner of a great part of the parish. Capt. Bingham, as impropriator of the rectory, is lord of the manor of Prior’s or Friars’ Hall; and here are several smaller proprietors, partly free and partly copyholders. Stebbing Park, a neat modern mansion, is the residence of J. W. Willis, Esq. Porter’s Hall, an ancient farm house, occupied by Mr. Joseph Clark, is still nearly encompassed by a moat. Wm. Barnard, sen. , Esq. , has a neat house in the village ; and Thomas Davey, Esq., has a pleasant seat called Prospect Place.
The Church ( St. Mary,) is a large and lofty building, with a nave, side aisles, and chancel, and a tower containing five bells, and crowned by a small leaded spire. The chancel has aisles, and is separated from the nave by three handsome arches. The nave was repaired and beautified in 1825, when galleries were erected and 143 additional free sittings provided. On the walls are some ancient tablets, belonging to the Jernegan, Batt, Sharp, and other families. There was a chantry here, founded by Sir John Bultell; and an obit, endowed by John Gunnock. The rectory was given by Wm. de Ferrers to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem ; but it is now in the impropriation of Capt. Bingham, who is also patron of the vicarage, valued in K.B. at £12 , and in 1831 at £212, and now in the incumbency of the Rev. M. D. Duffield, M.A., who has a good residence, rebuilt in 1832 and 1840, at the cost of about £1060, borrowed from Queen Anne’s Bounty. The glebe of the impropriate rec- tory is about 1284. The tithes were commuted in 1839-the rectorial for £850, and the vicarial for £351 per annum. Here is aneat Independent Chapel, built in 1719, but enlarged and repaired in 1820 and 1842. The congregation date their origin from 1662, when the Rev. Samuel Bantoft, B.D., was ejected from the vicarage for non conformity. Here are National and British Schools, and also a Friends’ Meeting House, built in 1674. For the relief of two poor people of this parish, Robert Fuller and John Polly, in 1588, gave two cottages and a garden, adjoining the churchyard, now let for £8.4s. a year. The poor parishioners have £3 yearly, as the rent of 44. of land at Oxen End, in Little Bardfield, purchased in 1612 for £39, of J. and T. Buttolfe ; and also a yearly rent-charge of 20s. out of 5A. of land, left by John Lum, in 1796. A legacy of £150, left to the poor by Frances Batt, in 1736, was laid out in two cottages, now let for £12.6s. a year, which is applied by the minister and churchwardens towards the support of the Parish Schools. Several other charities formerly belonging to the parish are lost.
STEBBING.
Marked 2 are at Bran End ; and 3 at Duck End.
POST OFFICE at Sarah Mumford’s.
Letters despatched by Chelmsford and Dunmow mail gig.
Barnard William sen. gentleman
2 Chopping Samuel, baker, miller, maltster, and brick maker
Clarke Richard, gentleman
Cock Chas. church clerk & schoolmr.
Davey Thomas, gent. Prospect Place
Duffield Rev. Matthew Dawson, M.A. vicar, (and canon of Middleham,) Vicarage
Easton James Brooks, surgeon
Faiers John William, cooper and turner
Hounson Misses Elizabeth, Anna M., and Lucy
Lewis Henry, marine store dealer
2 Linsell Abm. Barnard, saddler
Linsell Robert, cattle dealer
Linsell Sarah, baker
Morrison Rev. Joseph (Independent )
Overall Mr John
Linsell Mr Rd.
Thorne Joseph, machine owner
Thorne William, thatcher
FARMERS. (* are Owners . )
Barnard Robert, White House
Barnard William jun. (maltster) Holts
*Batsford Robert, Tyler’s Green
Byford Alfred, Hill Farm
Carter Joseph, Duck End
Chopping Samuel, Bran End
Chopping Samuel, Bran- End
*Clark Joseph, Esq. Porter’s Hall
Clarke Samson, Parsonage
Davey William, Church Farm
*Dixon Joseph ( Exors. of, ) Town Mill
Gould James, Bacons
Hitching Charles, Williams
Hockley William, (maltster,) Cowlands
Lewsey Sarah, White Hart Farm
Messent Charles (and brewer)
Metson George, Lubber Hedge
Metson Robert, Stones Farm
Metson Thomas, Tollesbury
Rawlinson Samuel, Brick Kiln
Rawlinson William, Hobby Binns
*Shuttlewood James, Tyler’s Green
*Smith Ann, Stebbing Green
Smith Joseph, White Hart Farm
Smith William, Poplars
Tarbert John, Lucas Farm
Tarbert John, jun. Yew Tree
Wallis William, Tann Office
Whitehead Joseph. Tanner & Martin’s
*Willis Jas. Webb, Esq. Stebbing Park
INNS AND TAVERNS.
Bell, Henry Marriott ( saddler)
Green Man, Rt. Linsell, Bran-End
King’s Head, John Harrington
Red Lion, John Harvey
White Hart, William Messent
BEERHOUSES.
Brand Thomas
3 Smith John
BLACKSMITHS.
3 Barker John
2 Farrow Mary
Parr Richard
BOOT & SHOEMAKERS.
Glasscock John
3 Gowers Esdras
Lewis William
Philpot James
Staines James
Thorogood John
Thorogood Thos.
BRICKLAYERS .
Cross Stephen
2 Cross Thomas
BUTCHERS .
Ketley William
King William Alex.
Wood Thomas
CORN MILLERS .
2 Chopping Samuel
Dixon Joseph, (Exors. of)
Whitehead Joseph
GARDENERS.
Harrington John
Philpot James
SCHOOLS .
Card Mercy
Cock Mary
Cock Charles
2 Cross Eliz.
Staines Sarah
SHOPKEEPERS.
3 Bambridge Samuel
Linsell William
Meadows Harvey
Smoothy Sus.
Wilson Eliz.
TAILORS.
Monk William
Smith William
Suckling James
WHEELWRIGHTS.
2 Metson Charles
Ruffel Thomas
CARRIERS.
James Bavins, to London, Thur.
William Lewis, to Braintree, Fri.