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Good Easter, Essex

Historical Description

Easter, Good, a village and a parish in Essex, on an affluent of the Chelmer, 4½ miles W by S from Great Waltham, and 7¼ NW from Chelmsford on the G.E.R., with a post and money order office under Chelmsford; telegraph office, Roxwell. Acreage, 1982; population, 572. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Alban's; net value, £200. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's. The church, an ancient building of rubble in mixed styles, was restored in 1886. Chalk End and Farnbridge are adjacent hamlets. There is a chalybeate spring in the parish, but only of local notoriety.

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 parishGood Easter St. Andrew 
HundredDunmow 
Poor Law unionChelmsford 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Good Easter 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.


Maps

Online maps of Good Easter are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictChelmsford
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCM1
Post TownChelmsford

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