Takeley Whites Directory in 1863
TAKELEY parish has a long straggling village, called Takeley Street, 4 miles W. of Dunmow, and E. of Bishop’s Stortford. It comprises 991 inhabitants, and 3154 acres of land, including Smith’s Green, Morrell Green, and Brewers-end, and many scattered farmhouses, &c. It gives rise to the Pincey Brook, and has a fertile soil and undulated surface. It is in four manors, which were held by Robert Gernon, Eudo Dapifer, and St. Valery Priory, at the Domesday Survey. The chief manor, called Waltham Hall, or Takeley, was held by Waltham Abbey, and after the dissolution by the Heigham, Miller, Petre, Shaard, Mumford, and other families. The small manor of Colchester Hall belonged to St. John’s Abbey, at Colchester, and now belongs to F. W. Nash, Esq. The manor of St. Valery’s was given by William the Conqueror to the Abbey of St. Valery, in Picardy, which had a small Priory here, as a cell to that Abbey, founded in the reign of Henry I. On the suppression of alien monasteries this manor was given to Wm. Wickham, Bishop of Winchester, who settled it as part of the endowment of New College, Oxford, to which it still belongs. The Daubuz, Wragg, Barnard, Patmore, and other families, have estates in the parish.
The Church (Holy Trinity) is an ancient structure with a tower and four bells, and has a south aisle, in which there is an apartment called Bassingbourne’s Chapel, opposite which is a strong room in which relics and images of saints were deposited in RomanCatholic times. A brass plate is inscribed to the memory of Hannah Knollys, who, in 1689, left a house and garden for the parish clerk, and a yearly rent-charge of £7 for the vicar. The Bishop of London is patron of the vicarage, valued in K.B. at £11, and in 1831 at £218, and now in the incumbency of the Rev. G. C. Tufnell, M.A., who has a handsome residence and 22A. of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1839, for the following yearly payments : £654. 10s. to the Bishop of London, £105. 10s. to Charles Nash, Esq., and £220 to the Vicar, who has also an augmentation of £55 per annum out of the Bishop’s tithes, now held on lease by Charles Nash, Esq. Here are two small National Schools, one at Molehill, built in 1852. An Independent Chapel, erected in 1808, and several houses in Takeley Street, are in the extensive parish of Hatfield Broad Oak.
TAKELEY.
POST OFFICE at Robert Lambert’s. Letters via Chelmsford and Dunmow.
Butcher Judith, Molehill School
Clarke Samuel, corn miller
Flack Richard, butcher
Gunn Miss Emma, National School
Hall Henry, swine dealer
Hardiman Rev. Henry (Independent)
Heard William, wheelwright
Lambert Robert, postmaster
Lambert Thomas, tailor and draper
Legerton Mrs
Yates Miss
Pallett Peter, parish clerk
Piper Isaac, corn miller
Potter John, coal dealer
Tufnell Rev. George Cressener, M.A. Vicarage
Willey Robert Isaac, wheelwright
INNS AND TAVERNS.
Four Ashes, Henry Cass
Green Man, Abm. Barnard Lindsell
Horse Shoes, James Staines
Reindeer, Mary Crush
BEERHOUSES.
Clarke Samuel
Lambert Thomas
Stokes Mary
Wild William, tailor
BLACKSMITHS.
Barltrop Daniel
Parkin Rayner
BOOT & SHOEMAKERS.
Chopping William
Mason William
Simmons Benj
Speller Robert
CARPENTERS.
Bird John
Cass Henry
Piper George
FARMERS
Aylett William
Baines James
Baker Mr
Barnard Thomas
Clarence Charles
Clarke Henry
Elliot George William
Garrett Ralph
Garrett Robert
Glasscock William
Hockley Charles
Lawrence Julias
Legerton Joseph Dixon
Marshall John
Orpen Walter
Patmore Mrs
Patmore John W.
Smith William
Tippler George
White Mary
Wragg John
GROCERS & DRAPERS.
Aylett Thomas
Bond John George
Speller Thomas
SHOPKEEPERS .
Lambert Robert
Piper George
Stokes Mary
OMNIBUS
To Bishop’s Stortford Station at 10 a.m.
CARRIERS, &c. pass to Dunmow and Bishops Stortford