Place:


Wimbish  Essex

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wimbish like this:

WIMBISH, a parish, with Thunderley hamlet, in Saffron-Walden district, Essex; 4¼ miles SE of Saffron-Walden r. station. Post town, Saffron-Walden. Acres, 4,862. Real property, £6,203. Pop., 939. Houses, 195. The property is much subdivided. The living is a double vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rev. H. H. Beamish. The church is good; and there is a parochial school.

Wimbish through time

Wimbish is now part of Uttlesford district. Click here for graphs and data of how Uttlesford has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wimbish itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wimbish, in Uttlesford and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6981

Date accessed: 19th March 2024


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