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GREENSTEAD GREEN, a chapelry in Halstead parish, Essex; 2 miles S of Halstead town and r. station. It was constituted in 1845; and it has a postoffice under Halstead. Pop., 659. Houses, 101. There is a paper mill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £400. * Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church was built in 1845; and is a handsome structure, with tower and spire. There are a national school, a servants' training institution, and a lccture hall.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Halstead CP/AP Essex AncC |
Place: | Greenstead Green |
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