Panfield or Pantfield, Essex
Historical Description
Panfield or Pantfield, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Essex, near the river Pant, 3 miles NW by N of Braintree station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Braintree. Acreage, 1498; population, 273. Panfield Hall was built in 1546, is a fine structure with square tower and clustered chimneys, and is now occupied as a farmhouse. A Benedictine priory was built about half a mile N of the church in 1250; was a cell to Caen Abbey in Normandy; came to the Crown in 1460; was given at the dissolution to Sir Giles Capel; and has left no remains. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £380 with residence. The church, a small building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, is a handsome edifice, and was beautifully restored in 1858.
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 | Panfield St. Mary and St. Christopher | |
Hundred | Hinckford | |
Poor Law union | Braintree |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Panfield or Pantfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Panfield (St. Mary and St. Christopher))
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 Panfield or Pantfield 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: