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History of Chigwell Row >> Post Office Directory 1874

Post Office Directory 1874

Chigwell Row
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CHIGWELL ROW is about 2 miles from Chigwell; it consists of villas, and has fine views over Hainault Forest and the rivers Thames and Roding: it was constituted an ecclesiastical district in 1860, and a parish in the year 1867, and is in the Western division of the county, Ongar hundred, Epping union, Romford county court district, Romford rural deanery, Essex archdeaconry, and diocese of Rochester.

The church of All Saints, which was consecrated in the year 1867, is in the Early Gothic style. The living is a rectory, yearly value £300, in the gift of the Bishop of Rochester and the Crown alternately, and held by the Rev. Richard Laurence, M.A., of Dublin. Here is an infant school. The area is 1,055 acres; the population in 1861 was 665, and in 1871 1,055

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