OVINGTON
White's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex ~ 1848
Submitted and Transcribed by Essex Villages
OVINGTON, a small village and parish, on the south side of the Stour Valley, 2 miles S.W. of Clare, has only 166 souls, and about 700 acres of land. Messrs. Homfray and Spackman are lords of the manor in right of their wives, but part of the parish belongs to the Earl of Mornington, J. P. Elwes, Esq., and a few smaller owners.
The manor has been held by the Vere, Felton, English, and other families.
The Church is a small antique fabric, with a wooden tower and spire, standing on high ground, commanding fine views.
The rectory, valued in K.B. at £7, and in 1831 at £469, with that of Tilbury-juxta-Clare, and the curacy of Allbrights annexed to it, is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. C. J. Fisher, B.A., who has a large and handsome residence here, and about 60 acres of glebe, in the two parishes.
Belchamp St, Ethelbert, now commonly call Allbrights, is a chapelry in Otten Belchamp, but has belonged ecclesiastically to this parish since the year 1473, about which time its chapel went to decay. In lieu of tithes in this chapelry, and his two united parishes, the rectors has £556 per annum.
Bartrup Joshua, church clerk
Chickall Charlotte, farmer, Hall
Fisher Rev. Chas. John, B.A. Rectory
Fox Wm, farmer, Hole Farm
King John, farmer, Upper Farm
Smith James, blacksmith
Smith Tamer, beerhs. & shopkeeper
Smith Vince, shopkeeper
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
OVINGTON, a parish in the district of Risbridge and county of Essex; near the river Stour at the boundary with Suffolk, 2 miles S by W of Clare, and 2½ N by E of Yeldham r. station. It appears on record so early as the time of Edward the Confessor; and it includes the quondam parish of Belchamp-St. Ethelbert. Post-town, Clare, under Sudbury. Acres, 705. Real property, £1,122. Pop., 145. Houses, 32. Ovington Hall is now a farm-house. The living is a rectory, united with the rectories of Belchamp-St. Ethelbert and Tilbury, and with the chapelry of Allbrights, in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £547. Patron, the Rev. C.J. Fisher. The church is ancient and small.
Transcribed by Noel Clark