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WITHAM, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, a hundred, and a division, in Essex. The town stands on the Roman road from London to Colchester, at an intersection of railways, near the influx of the Podsbrook rivulet to the Blackwater, 8 miles NE of Chelmsford; was built and fortified by Edward the Elder; passed to Eustace of Boulogne, the Knights Templars, and the Knights of St. John; was a seat of assizes in 1568; is now a seat of petty-sessions; consists chiefly of one long street; and has a head post-office,‡ a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, a good inn, a police station, a literary institution, an ancient church, partially built of Roman bricks, a church of 1842, built at a cost of £5,000, a handsome Independent chapel, rebuilt in 1840, three other dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, national and British schools, two suites of alms-house s with £80 and £172 a year, a workhouse of 1838, built at a cost of £6,850, some general charities, a weekly market on Tuesday evenings, and fairs on Whit-Friday and Whit-Saturday.—The parish comprises 3,633 acres. Real property, £15,629. Pop. in 1851, 3,303; in 1861, 3,455. Pop., 674. There are four manors. The living is a vicarage, with All Saints chapelry, in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £473.* Patron, the Bishop of R.—The sub-district contains 7 parishes. Acres, 17,251. Pop., 6,947. Houses, 1,443.—The district includes Ke1vedon and Cogge shall districts-districts, and comprises 38,938 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £10,795. Pop. in 1851, 16,099; in 1861, 16,324. Houses, 3,443. Marriages in 1866, 91; births, 467,-of which 26 were illegitimate; deaths, 316,-of which 87 were at ages under 5 years, and 6 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,030; births, 5,263; deaths, 3,332. The places of worship, in 1851, were 18 of the Church of England, with 7,661 sittings; 6 of Independents, with 3,028 s.; 3 of Baptists, with 541 s.; 3 of Quakers, with 1,270 s.; 2 of Wesleyans, with 269 s.; 1 of Primitive Methodists, with 60 s.; and 1 of Roman Catholics, with 49 s. The schools were 20 public day-schools, with 1,498 scholars; 36 private day-schools, with 779 s.; 19 Sunday schools, with 2,067 s.; and 2 evening schools for adults, with 47 s.-The hundred contains 16 parishes and a part. Acres, 37,304. Pop. in 1851,12,177; in 1861, 12,211. Houses, 2,562.-The division is part of Lexden hundred; and contains 16 parishes. Acres, 30,571. Pop. in 1851, 12,288; in 1861, 12,247. Houses, 2,668.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, a hundred, and a division" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Witham AP/CP Witham Hundred Witham SubD Witham PLU/RegD Essex AncC |
| Place: | Witham |
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