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HAZELEIGH

Post Office Directory of Essex ~ 1871

Submitted and Transcribed by Essex Villages

 

 

HAZELEIGH is a parish of scattered houses, 2 miles south-west from Maldon, in the Eastern division of the county, Maldon union and county court district, Maldon rural deanery, Dengie hundred, Essex archdeaconry, and Rochester diocese.

The church of St. Nicolas, standing in a meadow, near a farmhouse, formerly the Hall, is chiefly built of timber, and remarkable for its primitive simplicity.  The register dates from the year 1589.

The living is a rectory, yearly value £292 11s. 9d., with 15 acres of glebe land, in the gift of H. S. Blake and B Kerr, esqrs., and held by the Rev. George Raynor, b. a., of Clare College, Cambridge, at present non-resident, but a rectory house is about to be built adjacent to the church.

Sir George S. Brooke Pechell, bart., is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. 

The crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans and peas.  The soil is strong clay; subsoil, clay.  The parish contains 1,630 acres of fertile land, embracing a portion of the farm called Jenkins, the other portion of which is in St. Mary's parish, Maldon.

The population in 1861 was 106; gross estimated rental, £1,257; rateable value, £1,143.

Parish Clerk, Osborne Barker

Letters through Maldon, which is the nearest money order office

CARRIERS FROM BURNHAM TO CHELMSFORD, every Tuesday & Friday, & to Maldon daily

Austin John, White Hart, & shoemaker

Barritt Cornelius, farmer

Brazier Robert, beer retailer

Clarke George, farmer

Lloyd Thomas, miller

Ransom James, farmer, Jenkins farm

Taylor Richard, farmer, Hall

 

 

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866

HAZELEIGH, a parish in Maldon district, Essex; 2½  miles SW of Maldon r. station. Post-town, Maldon. Acres, 1,630. Real property, £1,397. Pop., 106. Houses, 30. The manor-house, called the Hall, is now a farm-house. A stone coffin, about 6¾ feet long, containing a female skeleton, was dug up in a field here in 1838. The parish is a meet for the Essex Union hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £258. Patrons, H.S. Blake and B. Kerr, Esqs. The church is a primitive structure, chiefly of timber.

Transcribed by Noel Clark

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