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Dunton or Dunton Waylett, Essex

Historical Description

Dunton or Dunton Waylett, a parish in Essex, 5 miles SSW from Billericay, and 6 SE from Brentwood, and 4¼ from Laindon station on the London, Tilbury, & Southend railway. Post town, Brentwood; money order office, Herongate; telegraph office, Horndon-on-Hill. Acreage, 2310;, population, 137. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £280 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church, rebuilt in 187 3, is a building of brick in the Decorated style.

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 parishDunton-Waylett St. Mary 
HundredBarstable 
Poor Law unionBillericay 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Dunton or Dunton Waylett from the following:


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.


Newspapers and Periodicals

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