INWORTH
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
INWORTH, a village and a parish in Witham district, Essex. The village stands on a rising ground, 1½ miles SE of Kelvedon r. station, and 5 NE of Witham. The parish comprises 1,554 acres; and its post-town is Kelvedon. Real property, £2,554. Pop., in 1851, 771; in 1861, 655. The decrease of pop. was caused by the closing of a silk factory. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to J.H. Blood, Esq. Inworth Hall is now merely a modern farm-house. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £306. Patron, T. Poynder, Esq. The church is ancient but good; has a wooden belfry; is partly built with Roman bricks; and contains remains of a Roman tessellated pavement, and a piscina. There is a national school.
Transcribed by Noel Clark
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933
INWORTH is a village and parish, on a pleasant eminence near the Blackwater, 1½ miles south-east from Kelvedon station, on the main line of the London and North Eastern railway, 5½ north-east from Witham and south 5¾ from Coggeshall, in the Maldon division of the county, hundred of Lexden, Witham petty sessional division, Lexden and Winstree rural district, Malden county court district, rural deanery of Witham, arch deaconry of Colchester and Chelmsford diocese. Near Inworth, but in Tiptree parish, is a station, where trains stop by signal only, on the Kelvedon and Tollesbury light railway of the London and North Eastern Railway Co. The church of All Saints is a small and ancient building of brick, flint and rubble, in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower of red brick containing 5 bells; the nave and chancel are separated by a wall of great thickness, pierced by three arches of rude and irregular masonry, the central arch being the loftiest: in 1876 the church was restored and reseated and the south porch rebuilt, chiefly at the cost of the Rev. Canon A. H. Bridges M.A. rector of Beddington (d. 1891): the font is octangular and is supported by a cylindrical shaft: there is a memorial in the church to John Angier, a former rector, d. 28th February, 1731. The church affords 100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1731. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £342, with 49 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Lord Islington P.C., G.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O. and held since 1931 by the Rev. Claude Henry Boraston Wanstall, of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. W. S. Calvert esq. of East Bergholt, is lord of the manor; there are other manors running into the parish. Lewis Henry Powell esq. J.P. is the principal landowner. The land is chiefly arable and undulating; a portion of it is light and gravelly, but most of it is good fertile loam. The area is 1,688 acres; the population in 1931 was 847 in the civil and of the ecclesiastical parish in 1921, 141.
Letters through Kelvedon. Tiptree is the nearest M. O. & T. office