THEYDON MOUNT is a parish, on the banks of the Roding and on the London road, 3 miles southeast from Epping station on the Ongar branch of the London and North Eastern Railway, 7 south-west from
Ongar and 17 from London, in the Chelmsford division of the county, Ongar rural district and hundred, Epping petty sessional division, Waltham Abbey county court district, rural deanery of Chigwell, archdeaconry of Southend and Chelmsford diocese. The church of St. Michael, which was struck by lightning and destroyed in the year 1611, was rebuilt by Sir William Bowyer- Smith kt. and re-opened in 1614, and is now an edifice of brick in the Jacobean style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, containing one bell: there are monuments of the Smijths, or Smiths, from 1577 to 1815, including a canopied tomb, with effigy, to Sir Thomas Smith kt. principal secretary of state to Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth, ob. 1577, and Philippa, his wife, ob. 1578, and another fine tomb with, effigies to Col. Sir William Smith, of Hill Hall, kt. D.L. ob. 1626, erected by Bridget Fleetwood), his widow: there are 250 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1564. The living is a rectory, united with that of Stapleford Tawney, joint net yearly value £800 in the gift of Lady Edward Hay, and held since 1913 by the Rev. Sidney Margetts Stanley M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who resides at Stapleford Tawney rectory, Romford. Hill Hall, a quadrangular mansion of brick with stone dressings, built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, stands in a park and grounds, 239 acres in extent; it is the property and residence of Maj. Lord Edward Douglas John Hay. Mrs. Northcote and Mrs. Battye are ladies of the manor and the principal landowners. The soil is mixed; subsoil, London clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, roots and beans.
The area is 1*564 acres; the population in 1931 was 169.
Letters from Epping, the nearest M. 0. & T. office.
COMMERCIAL. (Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over.)
°Calderbank Thos. farmer, Colemans farm. T N Stapleford 304
Chambers Jack, farmer, Skinners frm
Freeman Albt. farmer, Peakes farm
Galloway Kenneth, farmer,Mount frm
°Nosworthy Jn. farmer, Hobbs Cross farm. T N Theydon. Bois 137
Tarling William John, blacksmith.