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Shalford (St. Andrew)

SHALFORD (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Braintree, hundred of Hinckford, N. division of Essex, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Braintree; containing 832 inhabitants. The parish is supposed to have derived its name from an ancient ford over the Blackwater, by which river it is bounded on the east. It is about three miles in length, and two in breadth; the soil in some parts is a loam intermixed with sand, and in others a heavy wet loam with a substratum of brown clay. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £7; net income, £155; patron, the Prebendary of Shalford in the Cathedral of Wells. The church is an ancient edifice, with a tower.

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

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