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SALING (GREAT)

White’s History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex ~ 1848

Submitted and Transcribed by Essex Villages

SALING (GREAT) is a neat village, on an eminence, 5 miles N. W. by W. of Braintree, built round a large and pleasant green, shaded by rows of tall elms, forming an avenue to the church and the hall, where a highly pleasing and extensive prospect is presented. Its parish contains 349 souls, and 1651 acres of fertile land, having a hilly surface, rising from the small river Brain.

Mrs A. M. Fowke is lady of the manor of Great Saling Hall, and has a handsome modern seat here, called Saling Grove, standing in a well-wooded park; but a great part of the parish belongs to Guy’s Hospital, and the Earl of Essex, Mr Charles Hicks, Mrs E Townsend, Mrs Edwards, and a few smaller owners. The ancient hall is now a farm-house. The manor was successively held by the Wischard, Bibblesworth, Cotys, Carter, Raymond, and Goodrich families. The executors of the late B. Goodrich, Esq., sold it to the late W. Fowke, Esq.

The estate called Picotts was sold by the Lumleys to Guy’s Hospital. Bleak-End Farm belongs to the Earl of Essex.

The Church (St. James,) is a small, neat structure, with two bells, and was appropriated at an early period to Little Dunmow Priory.

The discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £7, and in 1831 at £148, is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. B. Goodrich, M.A., who has a good residence and 8a of glebe.

The tithes were commuted in 1839, for the following rent-charges: £34 to Guy’s Hospital; £56. 18s. 9d to the impropriator; £136. 15s. 6 ½d to the vicar; and £35 to the vicar of Felsted. The parish school was built in 1842, by the present vicar.

The poor have an annuity of 20s., left by John Smith, in 1726, out of a house in Great Waltham. They have also the rent of the Town Land, 1ar 14p., given at an early period, and now let for £4 per annum.

Post Office, at T. Morecraft’s. Letter’s desp.4¾ aftn., via Braintree

Adcock Samuel. vict. White Hart

Adcock Thomas, carpenter & builder

Allen Elizabeth, beerhouse

Chamberlain Thomas, butcher

Dodd Jph. shoemaker and par. clerk

Drane Wm. blacksmith

Fowke Mrs Ann Maria, Saling Grove

Goodrich Rev. Bartlett, M.A., vicar, and rural dean, (& rector of Hardmead, Bucks) Vicarage

Hanmer Charles W. Esq., Grove

Lake Mr. John ll Smith Mr. Peter

Morecraft Thomas, grocer & draper

Rallings John Stammers, baker

Ridgewell Benj. wheelwright & agricultural machine maker

White John D. and Lucy, school

Farmers

Baldwin Wm., Onchors

Bateman Robert, Glebe Land

Butcher Wm. Hickwright’s Farm

Glasscock Sus. Great Saling Hall

Hicks Charles, Woolpits

Hoy Thomas, Bleak End

Salmon John, Picotts

Smoothy Wm. Kemball, Park

Smoothy Wm. Freeman, Mutch Moores

Townsend Eliz. Boarded Barns

Willis Charlotte (& Charles Saml.) Grove Farm

Willis George, Betts Farm

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866

SALING (GREAT), a village and a parish in Braintree district, Essex. The village stands 4½ miles NW by W of Braintree r. station; dates from before the time of Edward the Confessor; and has a post-office under Braintree. The parish comprises 1,651 acres. Real property, £2,605. Pop., 361. Houses, 72. Saling Grove is the seat of Mrs. Fowke. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £125. Patron, W.V. Fowke, Esq. The church was restored in 1865. There are a national school, and charities £5.

Transcribed by Noel Clark


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