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Debden or Depden, Essex

Historical Description

Debden or Depden, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands 2 miles E from Newport station on the G.E.R., and 3¼ S by E of Saffron-Walden, and has a post office under Saffron-Walden; money order and telegraph office, Newport. It has a fair on 1 June. The parish comprises 4653 acres, of which 20 are water; population, 744. Debden Hall was built in 1795, after debigns by Holland. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £645. The church is ancient, has monuments of the Chis-wells, and is good. There are a Congregational chapel, and charities worth about £120 a year.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyEssex 
Ecclesiastical parishDebden St. Mary 
HundredUttlesford 
Poor Law unionSaffron-Walden 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Land and Property

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Maps

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