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West Hanningfield, Essex

Historical Description

Hanningfield, West, a village and a parish in Essex, 6 miles E from Ingatestone station on the G.E.R., and 6 SSE from Chelmsford. Post town, Chelmsford; money order and telegraph office, Stock. Acreage, 2839; population of the civil parish, 464; of the ecclesiastical, with South Hanningfield, 633. The manor belongs to Lord Petre. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of South Han-ningneld, in the diocese of St Albans; joint net value, £490. The church is Later English, in good condition, has a wooden cruciform tower and spire, and contains some tombs and brasses of the 14th century.

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 parishWest Hanningfield St. Mary and St. Edward 
HundredChelmsford 
Poor Law unionChelmsford 

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


Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for West Hanningfield 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

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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DistrictChelmsford
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCM2
Post TownChelmsford

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