Kelvedon Hatch 1863 Whites directory
KELVEDON HATCH is a scattered village, mostly on a green or common, from 2 to 4 miles S. by E. of Chipping-Ongar, and its parish contains 502 souls and 1656 acres of land. Kelvedon Hall, a neat mansion in a small park, is the seat of J. F. Wright, Esq., the lord of the manor of Germains, which was formerly held by the Bolles and other families, but passed to the Wrights about 1540. John Fane, Esq., owns the small manor called Miles ; and that called Bryces belongs long to Miss Dolby.
The Church (St. Nicholas) stands near the hall, and is a good brick building, with a tiled roof and wooden belfry. In the interior are many monumental memorials of the Wrights, and an epitaph in old French, for Richardde Welleby, in very ancient characters. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £12, and in 1831 at £400, is now in the patronage of A. Ashpitel, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. John Banister, A.M. , who resides at Alton, in Hampshire. Here is 30A. 3R. 25P. of glebe, and an ancient Rectory House. The poor have £2. 17s. 6d. a year from Jane Luther’s Charity, as noticed with Stapleford Tawney, for distribution in bread. They have also four tenements, and five acres of land, left by the same donor, and now let for £29 per annum, which is distributed on the first Monday in the year ; together with the interest of £200, derived from an unknown donor.
Boram Mrs, schoolmistress
Brown Thomas, blacksmith
Cooper Wm. carpenter and builder
Dolby Miss Louisa, Bryces
Fane Rev. Frederick Adrian Scroop, incumbent of Norton Mandeville, The Priors
Judd James, wheelwright
Knightbridge Henry, butcher
Lagden John, thatcher
Norris Thos. grocer and beerhouse
Packer Charles, baker
Raynor Rev. Geo. curate, Rectory
Skingsley William, vict. Eagle
Smith John, parish clerk
Woodfine Rd. miller, and Brentwood
Wright Jn. Frs. Esq. Kelvedon Hall
FARMERS.
French James, Langford Bridge
French Robert, Germains
Littlechild George, Pump House
Littlechild John
Sanders Edward
POST OFFICE at Thomas Norris’s.
Letters via Ongar.