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.
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 | Wicken-Bonant St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Uttlesford | |
Poor Law union | Saffron-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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wicken-Bonant (St. Margaret))
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 Wicken Bonant 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: