Kelly’s Directory 1933 (Part 3): Stapleford Tawney

Stapleford Tawney

Stapleford Tawney, which has this adjunct from a family of Tany, who owned it in the reign of Henry III, is a parish on the north side of the River Roding, opposite to Stapleford Abbots, 4 miles west from Theydon Bois station on the London and North Eastern Railway, 5 miles south-west from Ongar, 5 miles south-east from Epping, 7 miles north from Romford and 17 miles from London.

It is situated in the Chelmsford division of the county, Ongar hundred, petty sessional division and rural district, Romford county court district, rural deanery of Chigwell, archdeaconry of Southend and diocese of Chelmsford.

St. Mary's Church

The church of St. Mary is a small and ancient structure of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a western belfry with spire, containing two bells, dated 1611 and 1630.

An organ was presented in 1873 by Reginald H. Prance Esq.

There are mural tablets to the Smith family and many flat stones to that of Luther from 1619 and later.

In the chancel is a tomb with a brass inscription to a member of the Scott family, dated 1510.

The church was restored in 1861, and during the progress of the work two stone coffins were discovered in the chancel.

A new panelled roof was added in 1884. There are 200 sittings.

Parish Registers and Rectory

The register dates from the year 1558.

The living is a rectory, with that of Theydon Mount annexed, joint net yearly value £800, with residence, in the gift of Lady Edward Hay, and held since 1913 by the Rev. Sidney Margetts Stanley M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin.

Parish Charities

Charities amounting to about £25, derived from interest on Consols, are yearly distributed.

Suttons and the Manor

Suttons, the seat of Sir Drummond Cunliffe Smith bart., is a modern building of stone, picturesquely situated in a finely wooded park through which the River Roding flows.

Mrs. Battye and Mrs. Stafford Northcote are jointly ladies of the manor and principal landowners.

Agriculture and Population

The soil is mixed; subsoil, heavy clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and oats.

The area is 1,650 acres of land and 7 acres of water.

The population in 1931 was 192 in the civil parish, and that of the ecclesiastical parish in 1921 was 357.

Passingford Bridge

Passingford Bridge, 1 mile south, is a place in this parish on the road from Ongar to London.

Postal Services

Post, Money Order, Telegraph and Telephone Express Delivery Office. Letters through Romford.

Residents marked with an asterisk (*) receive their letters through Epping.

Stapleford Tawney Directory

Private Residents

For telephone numbers, see general list of Private Residents at end of original directory.

• * Galloway, Arthur Kenneth – Mount Farm
• Hillier, Harley H. S. – Talbot House
• Smith, Sir Drummond Cunliffe, bart. – Suttons, and Glenleigh, Hankham, Sussex
• Stanley, Rev. Sidney Margetts, M.A. (Rector) – The Rectory

Commercial Directory

+ Indicates a farm of 150 acres or over.

* Indicates letters received through Epping.

• * Galloway, Arthur Kenneth – Farmer, Mount Farm. Tel: North Weald 27
• + Gemmill, James – Farmer, Howfields
• Green, Stanley – Farmer, Suttons Farm. Tel: Ongar 1Y1
• Knight, Arthur G. – Shopkeeper, Post Office
• Lamb, William – Farmer, Great Tawney Hall. Tel: 227
• Padfield, John George – Farmer, Little Tawney Hall. Tel: 303
• Parker, Horace – Blacksmith and shoeing smith
• Pittam, Edward – Shopkeeper
• * Power, Richard – Farmer, Wood Hatch
• * Smith, James William – Beer retailer, Common
• * Stubbings, Thomas – Farmer, Common