Easthorpe 1848 Whites Directory
EAST THORPE, or Easthorpe, a small secluded village, 7 mies W.S.W. of Colchester, and nearly 4 miles N.E. of Kelvedon,
has in its parish only 146 souls, and 1300 acres of land. The Hon. Col. Onslow is lord of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to Earl Verulam, C. G. Round, Esq. , and several smaller owners. At Domesday survey, the manor was held by the Earl of Boulogne, and it was afterwards held by the Blund, Gernon, Peyton, Audley, and other families.
The Church (Saint Mary) is a small antique fabric, and the living is a rectory valued in K.B. at £12, and in 1831 at £211, in the gift of the Hon. Col. Onslow, and incumbency of the Rev. G. C. Bowles, who has a neat parsonage-house and 35 acres of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1842, for £200 per annum. Thepoor have
a yearly rent – charge of 7s. 21d., left by the Hon. Kingston Clarke, about 1600.
Barrow William, parish clerk
Bowles Rev. Geo. Cranley, Rectory
Ely Thos. shoemaker and shopkeeper
Hutley Thomas blacksmith & beerhouse
Stebbing George, maltster
FARMERS.
Ely Isaac Ely William (and Mark’s Tey)
Smith Daniel
Smith John
Stebbing Ann Wade Thomas
POST from Kelvedon.