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CHIGWELL
Including Hainault
Chigwell, Essex, a village on the Ongar road, 10½ miles from
Whitechapel church, and 1½ miles east-north-east from the Buckhurst Hill Station of the
Epping and Ongar Railway [by the fields on right of railway: cross the Roding by the Moat,
and the lane on right leads direct to the church] The parish had 4463 inhabitants in 1871
(an increase of 2000 since 1861), but this includes the hamlets of Chigwell Row, Buckhurst
Hill, etc.
The village is small, quiet, and country-like, with at one end the
church, on one side of the road, and opposite it a long low plaster-fronted half timber
inn, with projecting upper storeys terminating in gables - seemingly earlier than the time
of Charles I., whose effigy serves for its sign of the King's Head. It was at this inn
that the Verderers' or Forest Courts were held, till their desuetude in 1855.Chigwell
Church looks more picturesque from the road than close at hand. An avenue of clipped yews
leads to the principal entrance, and farther east is a second avenue. The church is in
part ancient, but defaced with plaster. On the south, under a wooden porch, is a Norman
doorway, with plain zigzag moulding; the windows are chiefly Perpendicular, and poor.
[Handbook to The Environs of London : James Thorne 1876]
Church Records:
- St. Mary
Baptisms 1555-1957,
Marriages 1555-1959,
Burials 1555-1943 : ERO
- All Saints, Chigwell Row
Baptisms 1860-1894,
Marriages 1867-1951,
Burials 1867-1944 : ERO
- St Paul, Arrowsmith Road, Hainault
Baptisms 1951-1977,
Marriages 1954-1968,
Burials 1954-1982 : ERO
- The Assumption (Roman Catholic), Manford Way, Hainault
formed c1952
- Baptist Church, Franklyn Gardens, Hainault
formed c1938
- Chigwell Row Chapel (Congregational)
Baptisms 1806-1837,
Burials 1827-1837 : PRO
- Independent Chapel, Lambourne Rd
Baptisms 1837-1840,
Marriages 1842-1843,
Burials 1841-1851 : Not deposited
- Methodist Chapel, Burrow Road, Hainault
formed c1952
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