North Weald Bassett, Essex
Historical Description
Weald Bassett, North, a parish in Essex, with a village, two hamlets, and a station on the Ongar branch of the G.E.R., 3 miles NE of Epping. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Epping. Acreage, 3423; population, 1117 There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £830 with residence. The church, standing in the centre of the parish, is a building of brick and rubble, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, chantry or Lady chapel, and an embattled western tower. At Hastingwood, a hamlet about 2 miles NE, a chapel of ease was erected in 1864.
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 | North Weald St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Harlow | |
Poor Law union | Epping |
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 North Weald Bassett from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Weald, North, or North-Weald-Basset (St. Andrew))
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 North Weald Bassett 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: