DUNTON, or Dunton Waylett, a small pleasant village on elevated ground, 5½ miles S.S.E. of Brentwood, and S.S.W. of Billericay,
has in its parish 173 souls, and 2338 acres of land, including part of Laindon Hills. Ulwin, a priest, held it in the Confessor’s reign,
and at the Domesday Survey, it belonged mostly to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, onwhose disgrace, the Conqueror gave ittoBecAbbey, in
Normandy. The manor of Dunton Hall was afterwards held of that abbey by the Albini, Walden, Vere, and other families ; but on the suppression of alien monasteries, it was given to King’s College, to which it still belongs, together with the farm called Dunton Waylett. Part of the parish belongs to the Freeman and other families; and the estate, called Friern, is the property of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. The Church (Virgin Mary) stands on an acclivity, and has anave and chancel, with a wooden belfry and spire. It has two bells, and the rectory, valued in K.B. at £14. 13s. 4d. , and now at £442, is in the patronage of King’s College, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Hill Tucker, M.A., who has 29A. of glebe. The National School was built in 1843.
Berkeley George Campion, M.A. curate of Dunton and vicar of Southminster, Rectory
Fynn Wm. shopkeeper and smith
Miles Thos. Esq. Dunton Lodge
FARMERS.
Buckenham Charles, White Hall
Dove Ezekh. Lines
Clarke Isaac F.
Field John
Squier Joseph
Jeffery Martin, South-field
Knight Richard, Dunton Hall
Letters via Brentwood.