NORTON-MANDEVILLE
White's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex ~ 1848
Submitted and Transcribed by Essex Villages
NORTON-MANDEVILLE parish has only 134 souls, and 727a. 1r. 39p. of land, though the village is situated more than a mile E. of the church, round a small heath or common, on the Chelmsford and Epping road, 3 miles E. of Chipping Ongar.
At the Domesday survey it belonged to Hamo Dapifer. It is now in two manors, viz., Norton-Mandeville, which was held by the Mandeville family, but was purchased in 1480, by Merton College, Oxford, to which it still belongs; and Newarks Norton, which extends into High Ongar, and belongs to the Rev. J. B. Stane. Mr. John Mullucks and Mr. John Caton have small estates in the parish.
The Church (All Saints,) is a small ancient edifice, with wooden belfry, and was appropriated to the nunnery of St. Leonard's Bromley.Capel Cure, Esq., is now the impropriator, and also patron of the perpetual curacy, which was valued in 1831 at only £83, and has no parsonage house.It has 22a. 1r. 26p of glebe, which was mostly purchased with benefaction money, and a grant from Queen Anne's Bounty, in 1743.The Rev. Jno. Chamberlayne, of Eastwick, Hertfordshire, is the incumbent.
Bright Wm. blacksmith
Fordham John Porter, maltster
Mullucks John, gentleman
Page Ann, schoolmrs. & Mr. Wm.
Reynolds Joseph, cooper
Webb Eliza, shopkeeper
Bailey Thomas, Hall
Baker BarnardII Read George
Caton John(London salesman)
Richardson Wm. S., Collin's
(Letters from Ongar)
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
NORTON-MANDEVILLE, a parish in Ongar district, Essex; near the river Roding, 2½ miles NE of Ongar r. station. Post-town, Ongar, under Brentwood. Acres, 757. Real property, £681. Pop., 129. Houses, 32. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £83. Patron, C. Cure, Esq. The church was recently in disrepair.
Transcribed by Noel Clark