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Great Yeldham, Essex

Historical Description

Yeldham, Great or Lower, a parish, with a village, in Essex, on the Colne Valley branch of the G.E.R., 6½ miles NW by N of Halstead. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Halstead, and a railway station. Acreage, 1871; population, 619, There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor, with Spencer Grange, a fine mansion standing in grounds of about 150 acres, belongs to the Way family. Spaynes Hall is a chief residence. An oak in the centre of the village measures 30 feet in girth at 4 feet from the ground. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £320 with residence. The church is an ancient building of rubble in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel with S chapel, nave, S transept, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It has some ancient brasses and memorials, and some good stained glass. There are a Baptist chapel, an endowed school with £25 a year, six almshouses, and some small charities.

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 parishYeldham St. Andrew 
HundredHinckford 
Poor Law unionHalsted 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

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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

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictBraintree
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCO9
Post TownHalstead

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