UK Genealogy Archives logo
DISCLOSURE: This page may contain affiliate links, meaning when you click the links and make a purchase, we may receive a commission.

Wenden Lofts, Essex

Historical Description

Wenden Lofts, a parish in Essex, 4 miles NW by W of Audley End station on the G.E.R., and 6 W by N of Saffron Walden. Post town. Saffron Walden; money order office, Elmdon; telegraph office, Heydon. Acreage, 799; population of the civil parish, 67; of the ecclesiastical, with Elmdon, 662. There is a parish council of six members and a chairman. Lofts Hall, an ancient Elizabethan mansion of brick, dating from 1579, is a seat of the Wilkes family. The living is a rectory, united with Elmdon, in the diocese of St Albans; joint net value, £280 with residence. The church, which stands in the grounds of Lofts Hall, is a building of cut flint and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, N and S porches, and a pinnacled western tower. It has a brass of 1450.

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 parishWenden-Lofts St. Dunstan 
HundredUttlesford 
Poor Law unionSaffron-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 Wenden Lofts 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

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online:

Advertisement

Advertisement