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TAKELEY

White's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex ~ 1848

Submitted and Transcribed by Essex Villages

 

TAKELEY parish has a long straggling village, called Takeley Street, 4 miles W. of Dunmow, and E. of Bishop Stortford. It comprises 899 inhabitants, and 3154 acres of land, including Smith?s Green, Morrell Green, and Brewer's-end, and many scattered farm-houses, &c. It gives rise to the Pincey Brook, and has a fertile soil and undulated surface. It is in four manors, which were held by Robert Gernon, Eudo Dapifer, and St. Valery Priory, at the Domesday Survey.

Thomas Mumford, Esq., is lord of the chief manor, called Waltham Hall, or Takeley, which was held by Waltham Abbey, and after dissolution by the Heigham, Miller, Petre, Shaard, and other families. The small manor of Colchester Hall belong to St. John's Abbey, at Colchester, and was afterwards held by the Wyberd Wiseman, Crackbone, Plumme, and Russell families.

The manor of St. Valery?s, vulgarly called Warish Hall, was given by William the Conqueror to the Abbey of St. Valery, in Picardy, which had a small Priory here, as a cell to that Abbey, founded in the reign of Henry l. On the suppression of alien monasteries, this manor was given to Wm. Wickham, Bishop of Winchester, who settled it as part of the endowment of New Collage, Oxford, to which it still belongs. In the court rolls it is called, 'Takeley St. Walerici'. Bassingbourne Hall, a large mansion on a commanding eminence, was erected by Fras. Barnard, Esq., who purchased the estate in 1745, and it still belongs to his family. The Hall was occupied by the late Sir Peter Parker.

The Church (Holy Trinity) is an ancient structure with a tower and four bells, and has a south aisle, in which there is an apartment, called Bassingbourne?s Chapel, opposite which is a strong room, in which relics and images of saints were deposited in Roman Catholic times. A brass plate is inscribed to the memory of Hannah Knollys, who, in 1689, left a house and garden for the parish clerk, and a yearly rent-charge of £7 for the vicar.

The Bishop of London is appropriator of most of the great tithes, and also patron of the vicarage, valued in K.B. at £11, and in 1831 at £218, and now in the incumbency of the Rev. V. N. Child, M.A., who has a handsome residence and 22a of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1839, for the following yearly payments:- £654. 10s. to the Bishop of London; £105. 10s. to F. W. Nash, Esq., and £220 to the Vicar, who has also an augmentation of £55 per annum out of the Bishop?s tithes, now held on lease by F. W. Nash, Esq.

An Independent Chapel, erected in 1808, and several houses in Takeley Street, are in the extensive parish of Hatfield Broad Oak.

Those marked ^ are in Hatfield Broad Oak parish

Post Office at Rt. Lambert's. Letters via Dunmow & Bishop Stortford

^Bird John & Edw. carpenters, &c

Child Rev. Vicesimus Knox, M. A. vicar

Chopping Thos. vict. Green Man

Clarke Samuel, corn miller, &c

Flack Richard, butcher

^Hanson Rev. John, (Indpt. min.)

Lambert Robert, Post-office

Lambert Thomas, tailor & draper

Pallett Peter, sexton

Piper Isaac, corn miller

Poole Mr. Wm. Smith's Green; (& goldsmith in London)

Potter John, coal dealer, &c

Prior Joseph, cart owner

Robe Mrs. W. Frogs Hall

Speller John, vict. Rein Deer

Staines Jas. vict. Three Horse Shoes

Tomlin Mary Ann, schoolmistress

Warren Wm. Rt. clothier & furniture broker



Beerhouses

Clarke Samuel

Hall Hy. pig dlr

Lambert Thos.

Stokes John



Blacksmiths

Barltrop Daniel

Brown Charles

^Perry John



Boot & Shoemrs

Bentley Wm.

Chopping Wm.

^Cook David

Hayden John

Simmons Benj.

Speller Robert



Farmers (+ are Owners)

Chopping John

+Clarke Henry

+Elliot Geo. W.

Garret Robert, Jack's Green

Hockley Daniel, High House

Hockley Charles

+Lawrence Julius

Marshall John

Marshall Thos.

+Mumford Thos. Waltham Hall

Mumford Thos. Warish Hall

Mumford A. T.

Mumford G. H.

Mumford H. E.

+Parkins Thomas

+Patmore Nichs. Old House

Patmore Wm. & J.I.

+Scott Samuel, Smith's Green

Swan John

+White Susan



Grocers & Drapers

Aylett Wm.

^Bird Edward

Rous John Jas.

Speller Thomas

Stokes John



Wheelwrights

Heard Wm.

Willey Rt. Issac



Carriers, &c

Pass to Dunmow, & Bp. Stortford

 

KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933

TAKELEY is a village and parish on the road from Dunmow to Bishop's Stortford, with a station within the parish of Hatfield Broad Oak on the branch of the London and North Eastern railway from Bishop's Stortford to Braintree, 5 miles west of Dunmow, 4 east from Bishop's Stortford and 36 from London, in the Saffron Walden division of the county, Uttlesford hundred, Dunmow petty sessional division and rural district, Braintree and Dunmow joint county court district, and in the rural deanery of Dunmow, archdeaconry of Colchester and Chelmsford diocese. The church of St. Mary's is an ancient building of flint in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: the font has an ancient and interesting cover which has been restored: the chancel, which was restored in 1874, when a chancel arch and organ chamber were erected, was again restored in 1914: a rood screen was erected in 1911: there are 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1662. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, with 6½ acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Chelmsford, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Edwin Henry Oakley M.A. of Queens' College, Cambridge. Here is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1812, seating 250 persons. A Recreational Hall was built in 1904. The parish is divided into several small manors. The ownership of the land is divided. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, mixed. The crops are wheat, oats, barley, clover, beans and roots. The area is 3,188 acres; the population in 1931 was 848.

BAMBER, or BAMBROWS GREEN is a mile and a half north-east; SMITH'S GREEN, half a mile east; MOLE HILL GREEN, 3 miles north.

Post, M. O., T. & T. E. D. Office (situated in Hatfield Broad Oak parish). Letters through Bishop's Stortford, Herts

Police Station

Railway Station (L. & N. E)

 

Takely War Memorial

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