Wickham St Paul, Essex

Historical Description

Wickham St Paul, a village and a parish in Essex, 3 miles ENE of Castle Hedingham station on the Colne Valley branch of the G.E.R., and 4½ N by E of Halstead. There is a post office under Halstead; money order and telegraph office, Castle Hedingham. Acreage, 1225; population, 324. The manor has belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's from the 10th century. Wickham Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £226 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Cliapter of St Paul's. The church, restored in 1866, is a small building of brick in the Early English style.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wickham St Paul from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wickham St. Paul (All Saints))

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 Wickham St Paul 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:

• Chelmsford Chronicle
• Essex Newsman
• Essex Standard