Little Easton, Essex
Historical Description
Easton, Little, a village and a parish in Essex on the river Chelmer, 2 miles NW by N from Dunmow station on the G.E.R., and 6¼ E by S from Stanstead, with a post office under Dunmow; money order and telegraph office, Dun-mow. Acreage, 1602; population, 336. Easton Lodge, a, fine mansion standing in a park of 800 acres, is the seat of Lord and Lady Brooke. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; yearly value, £251 with residence, in the gift of the Countess of Warwick. The church has two brasses and is good. There are almshouses for four widows.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Hundred | Dunmow | |
Poor Law union | Dunmow |
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 Little Easton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Easton, Little)
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 Easton 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: