BELCHAMP-ST. PAUL
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
BELCHAMP-ST. PAUL, a parish in the District of Sudbury and county of Essex; on the river Stour, 6 miles WNW of Sudbury r. station. It has a post-office under Sudbury, and a fair on 11 Dec. Acres, 2,557. Real property, £4,209. Pop., 832. Houses,179. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a meet for the East Essex Hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £240. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. The church is very good.
Transcribed by Noel Clark
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933
>BELCHAMP (or Beauchamp) ST. PAUL (so called because it was given by King Athelstan, in 930, to the Cathedral of St. Paul) is a parish, in the Eastern division of the county, Hinckford hundred, Sudbury union and county court district, rural deanery of Yeldham, Colchester archdeaconry and diocese of St. Albans, 7 miles north-west from Sudbury and 3 south-east from Clare station. The church of St. Andrew is a building in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and a tower containing 5 bells and was thoroughly restored and re-seated in the year 1873. The register dates from the year 1538. The living, which is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £207, with 78 acres of glebe and residence, was in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, who are the improprietors of the great tithes, but by an order in Council, June 23rd, 1870, it is in future to be in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor: it is held by the Rev. William Farrer M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford. £20 left in 1854 by the Rev. Edward Pemberton, of this parish, is distributed yearly in fuel and clothing. The principal landowners are the lessees of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, William Carter and George William Eagle esqrs. The soil is clay, loam and gravel; subsoil, clay and loam. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats and barley. The area is 2,557 acres; rateable value, £3,957; and the population in 1881 was 708.
BULWER BLOCK is 1 mile south-east.
POST OFFICE.---Mrs. Mary Ann Goody, receiver.
Letters arrive by foot post from Sudbury at 9.15 a.m.; dispatched at 4.15 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Clare
>Mixed & Infants' School, for 136 boys & girls & 40 infants; Miss Ann Mott, mistress.
CARRIERS TO SUDBURY---John Crisp & Lewis Tarbun, tuesdays & thursdays.