Hatfield Peverel, Essex
Historical Description
Hatfield Peverel, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands adjacent to the G.E.R., near the river Ter, 2 miles SW from Witham, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Witham. The parish comprises 4866 acres; population, 1319. The manor was given by the Conqueror to Ralph Peverel, passed to the Leighs and the Alleynes, and now belongs to the Wright family. A college for secular canons was founded here by Ingelrica, the wife of Ralph Peverel, was changed in the time of Henry I. into a Benedictine priory, and went at the dissolution to Giles Leigh. The Priory is a mansion of the reign of Queen Anne, pleasantly situated in a park of 100 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £272 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St Albans. The church was the church of the priory, is Norman, in very good condition, with turret-tower, and contains an effigies of the Lady Ingelrica, with other interesting tombs and monuments. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and there are four well-endowed almshouses.
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 | Hatfield-Peverell St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Witham | |
Poor Law union | Witham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Hatfield Peverel from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hatfield-Peverell (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 Hatfield Peverel 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: