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White’s Directory of Essex ~ 1861

Submitted and Transcribed by Paul H. Cogdale

 

ROXWELL, a pleasant village near one of the sources of the river Can, 4½ miles W. by N. of Chelmsford, has in its parish 827 souls, and 4,755 acres of land, including 120a of wood, 86a. of waste, and many scattered houses, extending northward to Boyton Cross and Chalk-end; and more than two miles south, to the small villages of Radley-Green and Cook’s Mill Green; the latter of which is partly in Writtle parish.

The soil is cold and moist--springs being found everywhere in digging a few feet; and the river Can, and its tributaries, flowing through, and nearly half encompassing the parish.

Most of the manors in Roxwell, including Boyton Hall, Mountneys, &c., form part of Lord Peter’s lordship of Writtle; but a great part of the soil belongs to other proprietors, the largest of whom is T.W. Bramston, Esq., M.P., of SKREENS, a large neat mansion, in a beautiful park, about a mile west of the village.  The manor of Skreens, was held by the Skreene family in the 15th century, and was purchased by Richd. Weston, in 1554.  It was sold in 1635, to Sir John Bramston, Kt., lord chief of the King’s bench, whose ancestor, Wm. Bramston, was sheriff on London, in 1394.  The house was built by Thomas Bramston, Esq., about 1710, but it and the grounds were greatly improved by his successor.  Thos. Wm. Bramston, Esq., M.P., the present owner of Skreens, Tye Hall, and other estates in this parish and neighbourhood, has sat in three parliaments for the South Division of this county.

The Church (St. Michael,) is a small ancient structure of stone, with a wooden turret and three bells.  The interior is remarkably neat, and contains a handsome marble monument, bearing a Latin inscription, from the pen of Cowley, recording the virtues, learning, and honors of Lord Chief Justice Bramston, who died in 1654, aged 78.  The benefice is a donative curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Writtle, and the great tithes of the two parishes belong to New College, Oxford.  All the tithes were commuted in 1839, for the yearly rent of £1,020 to New College, and £43 to the Vicar.

The National Schools, with dwellings for the master and mistress, form a neat building, erected in 1834, at the cost of £500, by T.W. Bramston, Esq., and have room for 300 children.  As noticed with Writtle, £27. 6s 8d is yearly applied towards the support of these schools, from Blencowe’s Charity.

The poor of Roxwell have the following yearly doles, viz. :-20s. from New College, Oxford; 6s. 8d. out of Boggis Farm, left by one Dorothy Davis, in 1634, and £1 paid out of Chalk-end Farm, under the name of the Poor Monk’s Gift.  The rents of a garden and two pieces of land, called Church Lands, are carried to the churchwarden’s account.  The poor have also the rent of a house and garden, formerly used as the Workhouse.

In the following Directory of ROXWELL PARISH, those marked 2 are at Cook’s Mill Green, and 3 at Radley Green.

Bramston Thomas Wm., Esq., M.P., Skreens

Bright Wm. Schoolmaster

Casterdine – veterinary surgeon

Cheek Sarah, vict., Hare and Hounds

Cooch Joseph, corn miller

Crush James, gentleman

Harvey Mary, blacksmith

Kirkham James, carpenter

Knight Thomas, baker

Page John, wheelwgt., Boyton Cross

Porter Wm., vict., Chequers

Rutter James, boarding school

Turner Rev. Thos., curate, Vicarage  

 

Farmers

Abbott William, Broadgates

Abbott Joseph, How street

Batt Daniel, Peppers Green

Blatch Thomas, Bolden Hatch

Christy James, Great Boyton Hall

Cooch Thos. and Chas., Hill Farm

2 Darby George  II  Nevill Mrs. Boyton

2 Greenwood Jas. & Son, (cattle dlrs)

Gower Thomas, Eleys Farm

Gandy Ann, Mountneys

Horsnell John, Stone Hill

Josling John, Elms

Matthews Porter, Wares

3 Norrington William Long

Page Lewis  II  2 Pinchon William

Ram William, Newland Hall

Stone William  II  Surrey Louisa

Tippler William, senr., Lightfoots

Tippler William, junr., Duke’s Farm

Turpin Robert, Ponty pools

Young Michael, Bull’s Hatch  

 

 

Beer Houses

Hartley Mary

2 Maryon Joseph

2 Perry Thomas  

 

 

Butchers

Porter William

Thorn John

Shoemakers

Oddy William

Palmer Thomas

2 Perry Thomas  

 

 

Shopkeepers

Cannon Eliz.

2 Darby George

3 Jester Peter

Stone John  

 

 

POST OFFICE at Sarah Mead’s. Letters from Chelmsfd.daily

 

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866

ROXWELL, a parish, with a village, in Chelmsford district, Essex; on the river Chelmer, 4½ miles W by N of Chelmsford r. station. It has a post-office under Chelmsford. Acres, 4,755. Real property, £5,879. Pop., 986. Houses, 183. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Lord Petre. Skreens is the seat of T.W. Bramston, esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £250. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church was repaired and enlarged in 1854. There are a national school, and charities £28.

Transcribed by Noel Clark

 

 

 

 

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