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Nazeing (All Saints)

NAZEING (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Epping, hundred of Waltham, S. division of Essex, 5¼ miles (N. W.) from Epping; containing 824 inhabitants. The parish is separated from the county of Hertford by the river Lea, and comprises 3890a. 2r. 32p., of which 823 acres are arable, about 80 woodland, and the remainder meadow and pasture. Its surface is undulated, in some parts rising into eminences which command finely-varied prospects. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £14. 5. 5., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £255; impropriator, Sir W. Wake, Bart. The church is a spacious structure, with a square embattled tower; the parsonagehouse is a handsome ancient mansion, surrounded with a moat. At the eastern extremity of the parish are vestiges of a fortification called Ambersbank, supposed to be British. The learned Dr. Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, was at one time vicar of the parish; as was subsequently Dr. Thomas Fuller, the church historian.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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