BROXTED is a pleasant Scattered village, picturesquely situated in a fertile, well-wooded, and boldly undulated district, from 3 to 4 miles s.s.w. of Thaxted, near one of the sources of the river Chelmer. Its parish contains 737 souls, and 3151A. 3R. 38P. of land, including roads, &c. Viscount Maynard is the lord of the manors of Broxted and Chawreth Hall. The latter is commonly called Cherry Hall, and has been held by Ely Abbey, and the Wanton, Lovetot, Crawley, and other families. It was sold by the Jocelyns to an ancestor of its present owner. R. B. De Beauvoir, Esq., is lord of Church Hall, or the Rectory manor, and impropriator of the rectory, and patron of the vicarage, valued in K.B. at �7, and in 1831 at �170, and now enjoyed by the Rev. A. Mason, M.A., who has a good residence of timber, lath, and plaster. The tithes were commuted in 1839, the rectorial for �666, and the vicarage for �200. The Church (St. Mary,) stands on an eminence, and has a lofty chancel, and a low wooden tower, containing four bells. The National school, near the church, was built in 1840 Viscount Maynard, who also erected another in 1848, at CHERRY GREEN, on the north side of the parish, 2.5 miles W.S.W. of Thaxted. Several small properties have estates here, mostly free, and partly copyhold.
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
BROXTED, a parish in Dunmow district, Essex; on the river Chelmer, 4 miles E of Elsenham r. station, and 5 NW of Dunmow. Post-town, Great Easton, under Dunmow. Acres, 3,149. Real property, £4,131. Pop., 935. Houses, 219. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £170. Patron, R.B. de Beauvoir.
Transcribed by Noel Clark
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933
BROXTED (or Chaureth) is a parish in a pleasant undulating country, richly cultivated and well timbered, 3½ miles east-north-east from Elsenham station, on the London and North Eastern railway, 4 south-west from Thaxted and 5 north-west from Dunmow station on the Bishop's Stortford and Braintree branch of the London and North Eastern railway, and 38½ miles from London, in the Saffron Walden division of the county, Dunmow hundred, petty sessional division and rural district, Dunmow and Braintree county court district, Dunmow rural deanery, Colchester archdeaconry and Chelmsford diocese. A small brook, rising in the parish, flows into the Chelmer at Tilty. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, situated on the side of a hill, is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of lofty chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a western belfry containing 4 bells: the church has ten stained windows and in 1876 was repaired at a cost of £2,200, of which a sum of £800 was contributed by B. Benyon esq. (d. 1897) for the restoration of the chancel; the vestry was moved from north-east transept to the west end in 1932: there are 240 sittings. The register dates from the year 1654. In 1933 half an acre was added to the churchyard, the gift of Waldo Tucker esq. The living is a vicarage. with the rectory of Chickney annexed, joint net yearly value £467, with residence, in the gift of James Herbert Benyon esq. and Capt. L. A. Cranmer-Byng J.P. alternately, and held since 1931 by the Rev. William Rutherford M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The great tithes are commuted at £605 yearly. The Congregational chapel here was erected in 1862, and has 60 sittings. The Countess of Warwick, who is a lady of the manor, Chaureth Farms Ltd., Mrs. Humphrey, H. W. Hoskin esq. and Waldo Tucker esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is heavy land; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans and peas. The area is 3,179 acres; the population in 1931 was 479 in the civil and of the ecclesiastical parish in 1921 549.
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