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.
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 | Yeldham St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Hinckford | |
Poor Law union | Halsted |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Yeldham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Yeldham, Great (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 Great Yeldham 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: