Chignal Smealy – Chelmsford Hundred 1863 Whites directory
CHIGNAL SMEALY, or Little Chignal, is a very small parish near the source of a rivulet, 4½ miles N.W. of Chelmsford. It has only 70 inhabitants, and about 400 acres of land, belonging to William and Hy. Marriage, Esqrs. , and other freeholders. Dives Hall, an old manor house, partly encompassed by a moat, was … Read more