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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Debden St. Mary | |
Hundred | Uttlesford | |
Poor Law union | Saffron-Walden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Debden or Depden from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Debden (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.
The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.
Maps
Online maps of Debden or Depden are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: