Great Pandon 1863 Whites directory
PARNDON, (GREAT) four miles S.W. of Harlow, is a pleasant scattered village and hilly parish, at the south end of this Hundred, watered by a rivulet which flows westward to the Stort. It contains 492 souls, and 2200 acres of land, adjoining Harlow Bush Common, on the east. The Earl of Mornington is lord of the manor called Canons, from a monastery of Premonstratensian Canons founded here, in the 12th century, by Roger and Robert de Perendune or Parndon. These canons removed to Beeleigh Abbey, near Maldon, in 1180, but they retained possession of the estate till the Dissolution, after which it was granted to Sir Thomas Darcy.
Kings MoorHouse, formerly belonging to the Risden family, is now the seat of Frederick Houblon, Esq. The Church is an ancient structure, with a tower and four bells. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £16. 10s. 7 d. and in 1831 at £398, is in the patronage of the Earl of Mornington and St. Thomas’s Hospital, and incumbency of the Rev. Owen Marden, M.A., who has 29A. of glebe, and a good residence, in the Tudor style. The tithes were commuted in 1843. The poor parishioners have £5 a year out of Mead Moor Meadow, purchased with £100, left by John Sealy, in 1589.
POST OFFICE at Mr. John Hudson’s. Letters via Harlow.
Bentley J. A. upholsterer, &c.
Crawley James, shopkeeper
Fairchild William, parish clerk
Heath Miss, schoolmistress
Houblon Fdk. Esq. Kingsmoor
Hs Hudson John, beerhouse and shopkeeper – Three Horse Shoes
Jackson William, wheelwright
Marden Rev. Owen, M.A. rector
Markwell Thos. carpenter & vict. Cock
Whiting Moses, blacksmith
FARMERS.
Akers John, Old House Farm
Alderson William L. Sumners
Appleby Christopher, Little Canons
Day John
Day John, jun.
Holmes Joseph, Hare street
King Thomas
Smiler William
Markwell Thomas
Press Thomas
Pomroy Jas. Canons
Church Stephen.
Rickett Benjamin, Church Farm
Risden John, Clapgate
Smith Peter
Smith George
Thurlow Sarah, Stuarts
Tongue John, Passemers