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White’s Directory of Essex 1848 – Stanford Rivers

Published in Issue 30

WNg of Essex 1848 - Stanford Rivers

A pleasant scattered village on the western side of the vale of the river Roding, and on the acclivity between two of its tributary streams, from 2 to 3 miles South West of Chipping Ongar, has in its parish 972 inhabitants, and 4386 acres of land. Some of its houses are on the London and Ongar road, near Ongar Union Work-house. At the Norman survey, this fertile and picturesque parish was held by Eustace, Earl of Boulogne, and it afterwards passed to the Lucy, Rivers, Petre, and other families. It now belongs chiefly to Sir C.C. Smith, Bart., and Capel Cure, Esq., and is in the Liberty of the Ducby of Lancaster. The principal manors and estates are Stanford Hall, Bellhouse, Berwicks-and-Caunes, and Littlebury and Rochenhoe. There was formerly a park here, holden of the King, as of the Honor of Boulogne, by the de Walden family, in the 14th century.

The Church (St. Margaret,) is a plain old fabric; with a wooden belfry and spire, and in the interior are several memorials of the Petre, Green, Mulcaster, and other families. The rectory, valucd in K.B. at £26.13s.4d., and in 1831 at £1025, is in the patronage of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and incumbeney of the Rev. E.C. Dowdeswell, D.D., who has 56A.2R.29P. of glebe, and a handsome residence, finely embowered in trees. The tithes were commuted in 1842, for £1020 per annum. Here is a neat Independent Chapel, belonging to a congregation formed in 1822. The poor parishioners have 5s. a year, left by Thomas Petit, of Greensted; and they had an annuity of 40s., left by William Green, in 1554, but it has been lost many years.

Inhabitants

John Barnard, baker and victualler, White Bear
Charles Carter, butcher
Rev. Edward Dowdeswell D.D., Rector & Canon of Christ Chapel, Oxford
Rev. Cosmo Spencer Gordon B.A., curate
John Halls, corn miller
John Mansfield, cattle salesman
John Mott, carpenter
William Mott, cattle salesman
Joseph Henry Nicholas, master of Ongar Union Workhouse
William Pavitt, wheelwright
William Rayner, bricklayer
Edward Rowan, victualler, Green Man
Henry Rudd, blacksmith
Mary Sewell, matron, Workhouse
Isaac Taylor, gentleman
Thomas Thompson, relieving officer and registrar

Farmers.

Daniel Allen
Charles Baker
Mary Barton
Augustus Berkeley
William Clark
Thomas Clements
Robert Dix, Hall
James Hawes
Robert Hill, Morrells
Mary Jennings, Caunes
William Kynaston, Littlebury
William Lamb
John Mott
Mary Mott
James Noakes
Thomas Oldham, Berwicks
John Palmer, Traceys
Henry Pavitt
Matthew Playle
John Sallibrass, Ongar Park
Jonathan Stokes, Passingford Bridge
Rev. R. Waller (home, Great Birch)
Isaac Ward
Mary Waterhouse

Shoemakers

Edward Garrett
James Sharp

Shopkeepers.