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