A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
RIDGWELL, a village and a parish in Halstead district, Essex. The village stands on the Via Devana, 1¾mile N W of Yeldham r. station, and 5½ S E of Haverhill; occupies the site of a Roman settlement; has yieldedmany British and Roman antiquities, including parts of a Roman villa; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Halstead. The parish comprises 1, 717 acres. Real property, £3, 619. Pep., 795. Houses, 166. The property is subdivided. R. Hall is a farm-house. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £192.* Patron, St. Catherine College, Cambridge. The church is tolerable. There is an Independent chapel.
(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: | Ridgewell CP/AP Halstead RegD/PLU Essex AncC |
| Place: | Ridgewell |
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