Clavering Hundred 1863 Whites Directory
CLAVERING HUNDRED.
Clavering is the smallest Hundred in Essex, and is sometimes called a Half Hundred. It is on the north-western side of the county, and is about 9 miles in length from north to south, but only from 2 to 4 in breadth. It is bounded on the west and south by Hertfordshire, and on the east and north by Uttlesford Hundred. It comprises only the six parishes of Berden, Clavering, Farnham, Langley, Manewden, and Ugley; and the hamlets of Bentfield and Pledgdon. It extends over about 14,000 acres, and contains about 5000 inhabitants.
Berden, Farnham, Manewden, and Ugley parishes are in Bishop’s Stortford Union ; and Clavering and Langley are in Saffron-Walden Union. These Unions are County Court Districts. This Hundred is in the Northern Parliamentary Division of Essex, in Saffron-Walden Polling District, in the Diocese of Rochester, and Archdeaconry of Colchester ; and in the Rural Deaneries of Stansted and Newport. The river Stort rises near the village of Clavering, and flows southward through the centre of this small Hundred, which was anciently a woodland district, belonging to the early Earls of Essex. Mr. A. B. Clarke, of Stansted, is the High Constable ; and the Hundred is in Walden Police Division.