Chrishall, Essex
Historical Description
Chrishall, a parish in Essex, 5 miles W of Audley-End station on the G.E.R., and 7 W of Saffron-Walden. It has a post office under Royston; money order and telegraph office, Heydon. Acreage, 2789; populatton, 547. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £194 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St Albans. The church is an ancient building of flint, has a canopied brass of the 14th century, and two other brasses. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Bilden End and Chrishall Grange are adjacent hamlets.
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 | Chrishall Holy Trinity | |
Hundred | Uttlesford | |
Poor Law union | Saffron-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 Chrishall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chrishall (Holy Trinity))
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 Chrishall 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: