Quendon Whites Directory in 1863
QUENDON, a small village adjoining Rickling, on the London and Newmarket road, near the Railway, 2 miles S. of Newport Station, and 6 miles N.N.E. of Bishop Stortford, has in its parish 165 souls, and 643 acres of land, mostly belonging to Captain Byng, the lord of the manor, who resides at the Hall, a large and handsome mansion of brick and stone, with a large park, stocked with deer andwell wooded. At the Domesday Survey, the manor belonged to Eudo Dapifer, and it afterwards passed to the noble families of Mandeville, Bohun, and Stafford. In 1520, it had become the property of Thomas Newman, who built the Hall, which was rebuilt in the 17th century by John Turner, Esq. , who enclosed the park.
The Church is a small tiled building, which was restored in 1861 by the patron, who added a new south aisle. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £9, and in 1831 at £165, is in the patronage of Capt. Byng, and incumbency of the Rev. J. Brackenbury, who has a good residence and 53A. of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1839 for £150 per annum.
Post via Bishop’s Stortford.
Brackenbury Rev. J. Rectory
Byng Captain Henry, Quendon Hall
Frost Chas. shopkeeper, Post Office
Mumford Thomas, grocer & draper
Patmore Mary, vict. King’s Head
Robinson Benjamin, farm bailiff
Smith John, farmer
Smith George, parish clerk
Wright William, boot & shoe maker