Pebmarsh, Essex
Historical Description
Pebmarsh, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands on a small affluent of the river Colne, 3½ miles NE of Halstead, and 3 from Bures station on the Sudbury and Haver-hill branch of the G.E.R., is an ancient place, and has a post and money order office (R.S.O.) under Bures, telegraph office, Bures. The parish comprises 2062 acres; population, 491. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Puller family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £350 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Verulam. The church is an ancient building of brick and stone in the Decorated style. It has a curious brass of 1370. There is a Baptist chapel. Dagworth is a hamlet about three-quarters of a mile NW of the village.
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 | Pebmarsh St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Hinckford | |
Poor Law union | Halsted |
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 Pebmarsh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pebmarsh (St. John the Baptist))
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 Pebmarsh 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: