FRESHWELL HUNDRED
Extends about sixteen miles southward from the borders of Cambridgeshire, and varies from five to less than three in breadth. It gives rise to the river Pant, and to a tributary stream of the river Granta. It is bounded on the east and south by Hinckford Hundred, and on the west by Dunmow and Uttlesford Hundreds. Being small, it is some times called the Half Hundred of Freshwell. It is fertile, well wooded, and picturesquely broken into hill and dale, and is all in the Northern Parliamentary Division of Essex ; and in Saffron Wal- den Polling District, except Great and Little Bardfield, which are in Dunmow Polling District, and Bardfield- Saling, which is in Braintree Polling District. It is in the Diocese of Rochester, Archdeaconry of Colchester, and Deanery of Sampford ; and the Rev. J. F. Bullock, M.A. , of Radwinter, is the rural dean. It forms a Police Division, and has its Police Station and Petty Sessions at Great Bardfield. Mr. A. C. Veley, of Braintree, is the high constable, and Mr. J. Raison is thepolice superintendent. The following enumeration of its ten parishes shews their territorial extent, their population in 1841, and the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the property tax in 1843.
FRESHWELL HUNDRED. Acres Population in 1841
PARISHES.
+Ashdon 4045 948
Bartlow hamlet 841 216
Bardfield, Great 3658 1120
Bardfield, Little 1710 375
Bardfield Saling 1081 381
Bumpstead Helion 3132 906
Hadstock 1665 490
Hempstead 3507 798
Radwinter 3802 915
Sampford, Great 2241 877
Sampford, Little 2628 470
TOTAL 28,310 7496
51 labourers were absent from Ashdon when the census was taken.
UNIONS : Bartlow hamlet and Hadstock parish are in Linton Union, which is mostly in Cambridgeshire; Great and Little Bardfield, and Bardfield- Saling,
are in Dunmow Union ; Ashdon, Hempstead, Radwinter, and Great and Little Sampford, are in Saffron- Walden Union ; and Helion Bumpstead is in Risbridge Union, which is mostly in Suffolk.
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