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- 1848 White's Directory - this page
- 1855 Post Office Directory
- 1874 Post Office Directory
- 1882 Kelly's Directory
- 1906 Kelly's Directory
KELVEDON HATCH is a scattered village, mostly on a green or common, from 2½ to 4 miles South by East of Chipping-Ongar, and its parish contains 430 souls, and 1656 acres of land.
Kelvedon Hall, a neat mansion in a small park, is the seat of J. F. Wright, Esquire, the lord of the Manor of Germains, which was formerly held by the Bolles and other families, but passed to the Wrights about 1540.
An estate and small manor, called Miles, belongs to John Fane, Esquire; and Bryces, or Brizes, and ancient house and estate, is the seat and property of the Misses Dolby, and was anciently held by the Luther and other families.
The Church (St. Nicholas,) stands near the hall, and is a good brick building, with a tiled roof and wooden belfry. In the interior are many monumental memorials of the Wrights, and an epitaph in old French, for Richard de Welleby, in very ancient characters.
The rectory, valued in K.B. at £12, and in 1831 at £400, is now in the patronage of W. H. Ashpitel, Esquire, and incumbency of the Rev. John Bannister, A.M., who has 30A. 3R. 25P. of glebe, and an ancient Rectory House, which has lately been much improved.
The poor have £2. 17s. 6d. a year from Jane Luther’s Charity, as noticed with Stapleford Tawney, for distribution in bread. They have also four tenements, and five acres of land, left by the same donor, and now let for £21 10s. per annum, which is distributed on the first Monday in the year; together with a yearly rent of £2.10s. from an acre of land given by an unknown donor, and now lying in the park of the Misses Dolby. These ladies and J. F. Wright, Esquire, usually gladden the hearts of the poor parishioners with large distributions of beef, clothing, etc., at Christmas.
Rev. John Bannister A.M., rector
Thomas Buck, shopkeeper
William Cooper, builder
Misses Dolby, Bryces
Edward Ellinger, blacksmith
Rev. Frederick Fane, B.A.
Charlotte Gandy, miller and victualler, Eagle
Henry George, wheelwright
William Nutt, schoolmaster
John Francis Wright, Esq. Kelvedon Hall
Farmers
Leonard Baugh (Executors of)
Ann Case
William Horner
William Cooper
John Thomas
John Littlechild
Post Office at William Nutt’s – Letters despatched via Ongar, at 5½ evening