Manuden 1848 Whites Directory
MANEWDEN. or MANUDEN, a pleasant village on the western side of the river Stort, 4 miles N. of Bishop Stortford, has in its parish 688 souls, and 2486A. 1R. 36P. of land. It has afair for toys, &c. on Easter Monday. J. M. Leake and Robert Gosling, Esqs., are lords of the manors called Manuden Hall and Battails, and owners of a great part of the soil ; and the rest belongs to Miss E. F. Horsley, and several smaller owners . The first named manor belonged to Robert Gernon, at Domesday Survey, and was afterwards held by the Bassingbourne, Playz, Gardiner, Bradbury, Bendish, Crawley, and other families. It was left to J. M. Leake, Esq., in 1831. The hall is an ancient farm-house, and the court is held under a tree called White AshCourt. Battails, another ancient farm-house, was built by Sir Wm. Waad, and was long the seat of his family, the last of whom, Capt. Waad, was murdered near his own house, in 1607. Other manors or estates here are called Pachenhoe or Payton Hall, Sawcemeres and Pinchpoles, and formerly belonged to the Barley, Buck, Sawcemere, and other families. Manewden House is the seat of John Thomas, Esq.
The Church (St. Mary,) is a 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 of the Rev. St. John Wells Thorpe, B.A., and incumbency of the Rev. J. C. H. Stokes, M.A., who has a good parsonage, but resides at Shrewsbury. 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 Manewdon 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. Thos. 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 Thos. Gardiner, in 1709. Three poor men and three poor women have clothing every third year from Robt. Buck’s Charity, of which the Draper’s Company, London, are trustees. The parish paupers have for a distribution of blankets 24. of land, purchased with £100, left by Edm. Edw. Southouse, in 1812, and now let for £4 per annum.
MANEWDEN.
POST OFFICE. at J. Bush’s. Letters despatched 6½ evening via Bishop Stortford
Barker John, carpenter and builder
Bayford Hannah, schoolmistress
Beever Rev. William Smythies, M.A. , curate of Farnham
Burls James, grocer and draper
Butcher Thomas, corn miller
Hurrell My. & Savill M., school
Moss William, shopkeeper
Stokes Rev. James Callcott Hayes, M.A. vicar ; house Shrewsbury
Thomas John, Esq., Manewden House
Thorpe Rev. St. John Wells, M.A. curate, Vicarage
Turnbull Mrs. Susan
Ward Silvanus, vict. Cock
BEER HOUSES.
Brand Mary – Yew Tree
Houghton Sarah
BLACKSMITHS.
Brand Edward
Phillips Thomas
BOOT & SHOEMAKERS
Clark Isaac ( and parish clerk)
Parker James
Phipps John
Prior Thomas
FARMERS.
Bentall William, Mallard green
Brand Charles
Burls James
Burls William
Bush Timothy
Clark Isaac
Markwell Joshua
Patmore Eliz. , Hall
Patmore William, Pinchpoles
Smith George, Parsonage
TAILORS.
Bush James
Moss Chs. Lagden