ULTING
White's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Essex ~ 1848
Submitted and Transcribed by Essex Villages
ULTING is a small parish of scattered houses, on the north
side of the river Chelmer, 4 miles S. by W. of Witham, and 8 miles E. by N. of
Chelmsford. It contains 150 inhabitants, and 1141a. 2r, 8p. of land, including
22 a. of wood, 17a. waste, and 11 a river.
The Trustees of the late Ralph Nicholson, Esq., are impropiators of the rectory,
and lords of the manor, which has been held by the Baynard, Ulting, Bourchier,
Heneage, Banks, and other families; but a great part of the soil belongs to G.
B. M. Lovibond, Esq., Messrs. John Pigot, J. Pledger, Robert Francis, and
several smaller freeholders; there being only about 50a. of copyhold land in the
parish.
The manor of Mugdon Hall is partly in this parish, but mostly in Hatfield
Peverel and Little Baddow.
The Church (All Saints,) is a small ancient stone edifice of early English
architecture, standing on a gentle slope, near the river, and having a wooden
turret, crowned by a shingled spire. Some of the original oak benches remain,
and also the old font, but the carving of the latter is much defaced.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £7. 4s. 2d., and in 1831
£125. The Master and Fellows of Sidney College, Cambridge, are patrons, and the
Rev. Charles Varney Shuckburgh, of Langford, is the incumbent.
The rectorial tithes have been commuted for £187. 17s. 6d., and the vicarial for
£164. 12s. 6d. per annum.
A New Vicarage House has recently been erected of white brick.
Garnons Rev. Wm. Lewes Pugh, B. D. curate, Vicarage
Ennefar Mrs. schoolmistress
Levett Edw. beerhouse & shopkeeper
Farmers (+ are Owners)
Aldham George, Grove
Aldham Wm. Ulting Hall
Carter John ll Quilter Joseph, Wick
+Francis Robert, Stock Hall
Francis Wm. Crouchmans
+Piggot John, The Elms
Raven Jasper, Ashfields
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933
ULTING is a parish on the north bank of the river Chelmer, 2½ miles south from Hatfield Peverel station on the main line of the London and North Eastern railway and 2 west from Langford station on the Maldon branch of the same company, and 8 east-by-north from Chelmsford, in the Maldon division of the county, Maldon rural district and county court district, hundred, petty sessional division and rural deanery of Witham, archdeaconry of Colchester and diocese of Chelmsford, The church of All Saints is a small and ancient building of stone and flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a western turret of wood with spire, and containing one bell: the church was restored in 1873 by subscription at a cost of £1000, when the east, west and south walls and the chancel were partially rebuilt, new windows added, the turret and spire reconstructed and a new pulpit and lectern added: it was also re-seated throughout with oak and an oaken porch erected on the north side: there are 85 sittings. The register dates from the year 1723, but the communion plate dates from 1571. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £175, in the gift of the Bishop of Chelmsford, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Harold Montgomery Lang M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, who is also rector of Woodham Walter, where he resides. Lieut.-Col. Sir Augustus Alexander Brooke-Pechell bart. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is light, gravelly; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, turnips, mangolds and peas. The area is 1,021 acres of land and 13 of water; the population in 1931 was 143 in the civil and of the ecclesiastical parish in 1921, 161.
By Local Government Board Order 22,354, March 24, 1889, two detached parts of Langford were added to this parish.
Post & Tel. Call Office. Letters through Maldon. The nearest M. O. & T. office is at Hatfield Peverel
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