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Little Baddow, Essex

Historical Description

Baddow, Little, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands on a tributary of the Chelmer river, 2 miles S of the G.E.R., and 4 E by N of Chelmsford, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Danbury. The parish includes also the hamlet of Middlemead. Acreage, 2735 of land and 21 of water; population, 543. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £297 with residence. The church, which is a building of Roman materials and rubble in the Early English style, contains a costly and splendid monument to the memory of Sir Henry Mildmay, Bart., who died in 1639. There is a Congregational chapel.

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 parishLittle Baddow St. Mary 
HundredChelmsford 
Poor Law unionChelmsford 

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


Churches

Church of England

St Mary the Virgin (parish church)

The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of Roman materials and rubble in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower eentaining 4 bells: in the south wall of the south aisle are two tombs with recumbent female figures carved in wood, with hounds at their feet, under Decorated canopies of the time of Edward III. and supposed to be the two wives of Sir Hugh de Baden: in the chancel is a stately marble monument to Sir Henry Mildmay, of Graces, who resided in this parish, was knighted on the battlefield, 25th May, 1605, during the Irish wars, and died 9th October, 1639, aged 61; he is represented as clad in armour, reclining under a canopy, with a sword by his side and a truncheon in his hand, and at the foot of the monument are two female figures kneeling, one an elderly lady with scarf and hood, the other a maiden, richly dressed: there is also an ancient tablet to the memory of two members of the Fitzwalter family: a brass found in this church at the time of the last repairs bears the following inscription:-"Here lyeth the corpses of Mercymight Springham, one of the davghters of Richard Springham Gent; whoe was wyfe to Richard Bristowe Esqvier xxvith years, and lyved in this world Fyve and Fiftie yeares, Departinge Her Mortall Lyfe the xxth of Janvarie 1611." The church has 150 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 Little 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 Little 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 districtCM3
Post TownChelmsford

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