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HATFIELD-PEVEREL, a village and a parish in Witham district, Essex. The village stands adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, near the river Ter, 2 miles SW of Witham; and has a post office under Chelmsford, and a fair on Whit-Tuesday. The parish comprises 4, 728 acres. Real property, £10, 777. Pop., 1, 311. Houses, 289. The property is divided among a few. The manor was given, by the Conqueror, to Ralph Peverel; passed to the Leighs and the Al1eynes; and belongs now to John Wright, Esq. A college for secular canons was founded here, by Ingelrica, the wife of Ralph Peverel; was changed, in the time of Henry I., into a Benedictine priory; and went, at the dissolution, to Giles Leigh. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £88.* Patron, John Wright, Esq. The church was the church of the priory; is Norman, in very good condition, with turret tower; and contains an effigies of the Lady Ingelrica. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £158.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Hatfield Peverel CP/AP Witham PLU/RegD Essex AncC |
| Place: | Hatfield Peverel |
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