Mundon, Essex
Historical Description
Mundon, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands near a creek of the Blackwater estuary, 3¼ miles SSE of Maldou station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Maldon; money order and telegraph office, Latchingdon. The parish comprises 8107 acres; population, 263. Mundon Hall is a seat of the Solly family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £85 with residence. Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church is partly a stone building in the Perpendicular style, with a brick chancel, and has at the W end a heavy hexagonal abutment eurmounted by a wooden belfry.
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 | Mundon St. Mary | |
Hundred | Dengie | |
Poor Law union | Maldon |
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 Mundon from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mundon (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 Mundon 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: