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Wicken Bonant, Essex

Historical Description

Wicken Bonhunt or Wicken Bonant, a small village and a parish in Essex, 2 miles WSW of Newport station on the G.E.R. main line, and 5 SW of Saffron Walden. Post town and money order and telegraph office Newport, under Bishops Stortford. Acreage, 850; population, 166. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £230 with residence. The church, which was restored and partly rebuilt in 1858-59, consists of chancel, nave, S porch, and western tower with broach spire.

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 parishWicken-Bonant St. Margaret 
HundredUttlesford 
Poor Law unionSaffron-Walden 

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 Wicken Bonant 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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