Wicken Bonhunt Whites Directory in 1863

Wicken Bonhunt Whites Directory in 1863
WICKEN BONHUNT is a small village and parish onthe north side of a tributary stream of the river Cam or Granta, 2 miles W. by S. of Newport Railway Station, and 5 miles S.W. of Saffron-Walden. It contains 173 souls, and 847 acres of land. In the
Domesday Survey it is comprised in the manors of ” Wicken and Bonhunt,” now belonging to W. C. Smith and Joseph Martin, Esqrs.; but part of the parish belongs to Miss Mary Webb, and a few smaller freeholders. For several generations, the manor of Wicken Hall was held by the Barley or Barlee family ; and after them, by the Chatterton, Bradbury, and Hetherington families. That of
Bonhunt passed from the Greens to the Bradburys, Nightingales, and Cranmers.
The Church (St. Margaret) was restored and partly rebuilt in 1858, at the cost of the patron, and is now a handsome structure with stained glass windows. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £11, and in 1831 at £228, is in the patronage of Henry Bliss,
Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. B. Bliss, M.A., who has a good residence, and about 50A. of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1842 for £245 per annum. Post from Bishop’s Stortford.
Bliss Rev. William B., M.A. rector
Gayler Eliz. beerhouse & shopkeeper
Grayston John, miller & shopkeeper
Martin Joseph, gent. Brick House
Pollitt Mr Jno.
Nash Sarah, beerhouse – Three Horse Shoes

FARMERS.
Brooks James
Gayford John
Gosling John Edward, Wicken Hall
Orger Mrs, Howlands Wood
Whitchurch Walter, Bonhunt