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Minster, South (St. Leonard)

MINSTER, SOUTH (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Maldon, hundred of Dengie, S. division of Essex, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Burnham; containing 1444 inhabitants. This parish, which comprises by measurement 6066 acres, is bounded on the south-east by the river Crouch, and on the east by the sea; the lands are in a good state of cultivation, and of a mixed quality of loam and gravel. The village consists of two small streets; fairs are held in it on the third day before Easter, the ninth day before Whit-Sunday, and the 29th of September. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £21; patrons and impropriators, the Governors of the Charter-House, London. The great tithes have been commuted for £1414, and the vicarial for £418. 10.; there are 10 acres of glebe. The church, a spacious and handsome cruciform structure with a square embattled tower, was enlarged about twenty or thirty years since, by a rate, aided by the Charter-House, and the Society for Building Churches. Some slight remains exist of a chapel at South Minster Hall. The Independents have a place of worship.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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