Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHIGWELL-ROW

CHIGWELL-ROW, a village and a chapelry in Chigwell parish, Essex. The village stands on the N side of Hainault forest, 1½ mile E of Chigwell village; is the Cingawella of the Saxons; and has a post office under Chigwell, London NE. The chapelry was constituted in 1860. Pop., 665. Houses, 136. Mineral waters are here. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Rochester. Value, £300.* Patron, alt. the Crown and the Bishop.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Chigwell CP/AP       Essex AncC
Place: Chigwell Row

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