Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WALTHAMSTOW

WALTHAMSTOW, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in West Ham district, Essex. The village stands 1½ mile E of Lea-Bridge r. station, and 6 NE of St. Paul's, London; was known, at Domesday, as Wealanestun; and has a post-office under London, NE, a town hall of 1867, and a police station. The parish is ecclesiastically cut into the sections of St. Mary, St. James, St. John, and St. Peter; and comprises 4,436 acres. Real property, £37,283. Pop. in 1851, 4,959; in 1861, 7,137. Houses, 1,423. The increase of pop. arose from proximity to London, and from the operations of building societies. There are numerous residences of wealthy families. The living of St. Mary is a vicarage, and the other livings are p. curacies, in the diocese of Rochester. Value of St. M., £745;* of the others, not reported.* Patron of St. M., E. Warner, Esq.; of the others, the Vicar. The church of St. M. is of the 16th century, and was restored in 1817. There are three Independent chapels. a Roman Catholic chapel, a free school, six other public schools, two suites of alms houses, a female orphan home, and considerable other charities.—The sub-district includes also Woodford parish, and comprises 6,584 acres. Pop., 10,594. Houses, 2,054.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Walthamstow CP/AP       Walthamstow SubD       West Ham RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place names: WALTHAMSTOW     |     WEALANESTUN
Place: Walthamstow

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