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The following are extracts from the History, Gazetteer,
and Directory of the County of Essex by William White
published in 1848.
ElmsteadELMSTEAD, a pleasant village, 4½ miles E. by N. of Colchester, and 2 miles S. by E. of Ardleigh station, has in its parish 809 souls, and 3589A. 3R. 34P. of fertile land. It is sometimes called Elmstead Market, owing to a market being held in the village during one of the visitations of the plague in Colchester. It has a fair for toys and pedlery on the 15th. of May. Edward Daniels, Esq., is now lord of the manor, which was held by Suene of Essex at the Norman Survey, and afterwards by Fitzwilliam, Tany, Pirton, Grimston, and other families. The greater part of the soil belongs to Charter House, London, J. G. Rebow, Esq., N. C. Corsellis, Esq., J. Round, Esq., Caius College, Cambridge, and several smaller owners, mostly free, and partly copyholders. The Church (St. Anne and St. Lawrence) has a nave, chancel, and a south aisle, and at the west end of the latter, over the entrance porch, rises a short tower. It was appropriated to St. Osyth Prior, in 1382, by Aubery de Vere, Earl of Oxford. The discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £8, and in 1831 at £310, is in the patronage of Jesus College, Cambridge; and incumbency of Rev. Wm. Wilson, M.A., who has a good white brick residence and 10A. 2R. 12P. of glebe. The rectory is in the appropriation of Jesus College, and has about 60A. of glebe, and £807 a year lieu of tithes. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for £233. 10s. per annum; but the vicar has also about £70 a year from land in Suffolk. Here is a small Wesleyan Chapel. The poor parishioners have a house, formerly used as a workhouse, and three cottages, with small gardens, occupied rent-free. | |
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