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Great Baddow, Essex

Historical Description

Baddow, Great, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands near the river Chelmer, 2 miles ESE of Chelmsford station on the G.E.R.; has a post and telegraph office under Chelmsford; and is a pleasant place, with a considerable number of genteel residences. The parish comprises 3898 acres of land and 12 of water; population of the civil parish, 2019; of the ecclesiastical, 1486. There is an extensive brewery here. The manor belonged to Algar, Earl of Mercia; was given by William the Conqueror to the Abbey of Caen in Normandy; passed, in the time of Henry I., to the Earl of Gloucester; and went through a series of proprietors, to the family of Houblon. Baddow Hall is now the residence of the Greene family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £324 with residence. The church is a building of brick and rubble in the Early English style. There is also a Congregational chapel. Richard de Badew, the founder of Clare Hall, Cambridge, was a native.

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 parishBaddow St. Mary 
HundredChelmsford 
Poor Law unionChelmsford 

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


Churches

Church of England

St Mary (parish church)

The church of St. Mary is an edifice of brick and rubble, the older part of which belongs to the Decorated period, the clerestory and additions to the aisles being of the early part of the 16th century; it consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with spire, containing a clock and 8 bells: there is a monument of marble and alabaster on the south wall to Mrs. Amy and Mrs. Margaret Gwyn, 1753: the east window is a memorial to the late Mr. W. Packer and his family: there are 400 sittings.


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 Great Baddow 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 Great Baddow 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 districtCM2
Post TownChelmsford

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