In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Feering like this:
FEERING, a parish in Witham district, Essex; on the river Blackwater, and on the Eastern Union railway, 2 miles SE of Coggeshall. Post town, Kelvedon. Acres, 3, 230. Real property, £6, 201 . Pop., 804. Houses, 166. The property is much subdivided. A small extent of the land is under hops. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £278.* Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church is Tudor, with porch and tower; was recently restored in the interior; and has an antique font, and a finely-carved pulpit.
Feering through time
Feering is now part of Braintree district. Click here for graphs and data of how Braintree has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Feering itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Feering, in Braintree and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6706
Date accessed: 18th April 2024
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