Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHIGWELL

CHIGWELL, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Epping district, Essex. The village stands adjacent to the river Roding, near Epping forest, 1½ mile ESE of Buckhurst Hill r. station, and 6 SSW of Epping; and has a post office under London NE., and a fair on 30 Sept. The parish includes also the village of Chigwell-Row. Acres, 4, 522. Real property, £15, 661. Pop., 2, 676. Houses, 474. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £500.* Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church has traces of Norman; is good; and contains brasses of 1540 and 1631. The rectories of Buckhurst and Chigwell-Row are separate benefices. A school, founded in 1629 by Archbishop Harsnet, has £340 from endowment; and other charities have £74. Archbishop Harsnet, and Beloe, the translator of Herodotus, were vicars; and Penn, the Quaker, was educated in the school. -The sub-district contains four parishes. Acres, 1, 634. Pop., 5, 987. Houses, 1, 143.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Chigwell CP/AP       Chigwell SubD       Epping RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place: Chigwell

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