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.
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 | Good Easter St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Dunmow | |
Poor Law union | Chelmsford |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Easter, Good (St. Andrew))
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:
- 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: