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Ockendon, North (St. Mary Magdalene)

OCKENDON, NORTH (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Orsett, hundred of Chafford, S. division of Essex, 6 miles (S. E.) from Romford; containing 306 inhabitants. It comprises by measurement 1703 acres, of which 1450 are arable, and 253 pasture with a very small portion of woodland. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £16. 13. 4., and in the gift of Richard Benyon de Beauvoir, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £490; the glebe comprises 30 acres. The church is a picturesque building, partly covered with ivy, and containing in its two chancel windows some stained glass of considerable antiquity: in the south aisle, the oldest part of the edifice, is a Norman arch, one pillar of which has been cut away to form a receptacle for holy water; the pulpit is of oak richly carved; and in the north chancel are several tombs belonging to the family of Pointz or Littleton, commencing in Edward the Third's time, and continuing in regular succession to that of Queen Anne. Richard Pointz, in 1640, bequeathed £200 to be laid out in land for the benefit of the poor. In the churchyard is a fine spring of soft water.

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

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