Manewdon 1863 Whites Directory
MANEWDEN, or MANUDEN, a pleasant village on the western side of the river Stort, 4 miles N. of Bishop’s Stortford, has in its parish 752 souls, and 2486A. 1R. 36P. of land. It has a fair for toys, &c., on Easter Monday. Robert Gosling, Esq., is lord of the manor of Battails, and S. R. M. Leake, Esq. , is lord of the manor of Manuden Hall. They own a great part of the soil, and the rest belongs to several smaller owners.
The Church (St. Mary) is large cruciform building, of flint and stone, consisting of a nave and aisles, a transept, a spacious chancel, and a tower containing five bells, and crowned by a spire. It was appropriated by Richard de Camville to the monks of St. Melan, in Bretagne, who had a cell at Hatfield Broad Oak. The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £14, and in 1831 at £171, is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. St. John Wells Thorpe, B.A., who has a good parsonage. The tithes were commuted in 1839- the vicarial for £201, and the rectorial for £629 per annum. The latter are in the impropriation of J. A. Casamaijor, Esq. , and the glebe is 53A. 3R. 26P. A new National School was built in 1848, and here is a small Independent Chapel. The poor parishioners have £44. 10s. divided among them yearly, as the gross proceeds of the six following charities, viz.: -A rent-charge of 13s. 4d., given in 1559, by Thomas Crawley, out of the manor of Manewden Hall ; £4. 5s. , the rent of two old cottages, derived from the will of Wm. Bull, in 1569 ; £4.10s. from two tenements and a garden, left by John Jacklyn, in 1659 £3, as the rent of part of a house left by the Rev. Thomas Pakeman, in 1673, and partly occupied, rent-free, by paupers; £19 from 10A. of the Mill common, purchased with £100 left by Thos. Parker, in 1699 ; and £13.10s. from 6A. 1R. of land, purchased with £100 left by Thomas Gardiner, in 1709. Three poor men and three poor womenhave clothing every third year from Robert Buck’s Charity, of which the Draper’s Company, London, are trustees. The parish paupers have for a distribution of blankets 2A. of land, purchased with £100, left by Edm. Edw. Southouse, in 1812, and now let for £4 per annum.
MANEWDEN.
POST OFFICE at Jas. Bush’s. Letters via Bishop’s Stortford.
Cork Miss Ann, grocer, &c.
Horner Thomas, carpenter, &c.
Hurrell Miss Mary, schoolmistress
Moss William, shopkeeper
Sawyer Emily, schoolmistress
Simmons Joseph. grocer and draper
Thomas John, Esq. Manewdon House
Thorpe Rev. St. John Wells, B.A. vicar and surrogate
Ward Richard, bricklayer
Ward Silvanus, victualler, Cock
Watts James, glover & fellmonger
BEERHOUSES.
Brand Mary – Yew Tree
Hanscomb John
BLACKSMITHS.
Brand Edward
Phillips Thomas
BOOT & SHOEMAKERS
Clark Isaac. parish clerk
Day George
Parker James
FARMERS.
Burls James
Bush Ann
Clayden Charles
Cowell Joseph
Judd Stephen, Bdgm.
Patmore Hannah
Patmore Mary A.
Smith George
Totman Samuel Beddall
TAILORS.
Bush James
Moss Chs. Lagden