WENNINGTON is a marshland parish of scattered houses, on the north side of the river Thames, from 1 to 2 miles W.N.W. of Purfleet, 8 miles S.S.E. of Romford, and 14 miles E. of London.
It contains 177 inhabitants, and 1285A. 2R. 39P. of land ; and belonged to Westminster Abbey before the Conquest, and was afterwards held by the Moresco, Noke, Warner, and other families. Hall Dare, Esq. , is lord of the manor of Wennington, and Sir T. B. Lennard is lord of the manor of Noke, which lies in the marshes, and was long the seat of a family of its own name. Part of the parish belongs to a few smaller owners, mostly freeholders. The western part of the parish, where a small rivulet falls into the Thames, is called COLD HARBOUR. The Church (St. Mary and St. Peter) is an ancient structure, with an embattled tower, and stands on an eminence, above the marshes. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £8, and in 1831 at £373, is in the patronage of the Bishop of Peterborough, and incumbency of the Rev. George Gorg William Curtis, B.A., of Padworth, Berkshire. Here is no parsonage house, and the glebe is only four acres. The tithes were commuted in 1839, for £440 per annum. The poor parishioners have two yearly rent-charges of 10s. each out of two houses, one in this parish, and the other at Rainham; but the donors are unknown.
POST OFFICE at Sarah Nuttman’s. Letters via Romford & Grays.
Hart Rev. James, curate
Peters Thomas, parish clerk
Straker Fredk. Esq. Wennington House
Warren Hilliary, victualler, Lennard’s Arms
FARMERS.
Benton Aaron, Landthorpe House
Bourne John Dupree, Cold Harbour
Cockerton Frederick, Hall
Mitchell Peter, East Hall
Walker William