Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARDFIELD (Great)

BARDFIELD (Great), a village and a parish in Dunmow district, Essex. The village stands on Blackwater river, 9 miles NW of Braintree r. station. It has a post-office‡ under Braintree, a new town hall, a police station, and a fair on 22 Jan.; and is a seat of petty sessions. The parish comprises 3,689 acres. Real property, £6,715. Pop., 1,065. Houses, 259. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £262.* Patron, Representatives of late Rev. B. E. Lampet. The church is old. There are three dissenting chapels, two public schools, and charities £72.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Great Bardfield CP/AP       Dunmow RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place names: BARDFIELD     |     BARDFIELD GREAT     |     GREAT BARDFIELD
Place: Great Bardfield

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