HAWKSWELL
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
HAWKWELL, or HAWKSWELL, or HACKWELL, a parish in Rochford district, Essex; 2 miles NW of Rochford, and 4½ N of Leigh r. station. Post-town, Rochford, under Chelmsford. Acres, 1,353. Real property, £2,506. Pop., 334. Houses, 71. The property is is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £400. Patron, R. Bristow, Esq. The church has nave and chancel, with a spire, and is good. There are a national school, and charities £28.
Transcribed by Noel Clark
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933
HAWKWELL (Hawkswell, Hawkewell or Hackwell) acquired this name at least as early as the time of Edward the Confessor, and is a village and parish, 1 mile south-east from Hockley station on the London and North Eastern railway, 6 north-east from Southend and 35 from London, in the South-Eastern division of the county, Rochford hundred, petty sessional division and rural district, Southend county court district in Canewdon and Southend rural deanery, Southend archdeaconry and Chelmsford diocese. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, porch and a wooden belfry at the west end with spire and containing one bell: there is a piscina and a low-side window, and three stained windows in the chancel and nave: in 1930 a carved oak altar was placed in the church by the parishioners, to the memory of a former rector, Rev. George Padfield M.A.: the church was restored in 1877 and affords 100 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from 1692; burials, 1695; marriages, 1696. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £300, including 78 acres of glebe, with residence in the gift of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and held since 1930 by the Rev. Arthur Septimus Trudgett, of London College of Divinity. There is a Baptist chapel and a Gospel Hall. The Sudbury charity, dating from the 16th century, and yielding about £16 yearly, is distributed in coals and money to the aged poor, Miss Tawke of Hockley and Messrs. Cottis Bros. of Rochford are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, mostly clay. The area is 1,365 acres; The population in 1931 was 1,744.
Post Office. Letters from Hockley, Essex which is the nearest M. O. & T. office.