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Hornchurch 1855 Post Office Directory
History of Hornchurch
Hornchurch is a village and parish, pleasantly situate on
the main road from Romford to Upminster, 2 miles south east from the railway
station of the former, 1 mile from the latter, and 14 from
London.
Here are a foundry and agricultural implement works; brick and tile and
drainpipe making: brewing, malting, and the manufacture of knitting yarn,
Guernsey frocks, sea stockings, and woollen mops are carried on to a
considerable extent. There are almshouses founded by Dame Appleton, 1587,
rebuilt 1838; and others by John Pennant, 1597, restored by Thomas Mashiter Esq,
1837. There are other charities connected with this parish, distributed at
various times according to the directions of benevolent donors deceased.
Hornchurch was anciently celebrated for the number of pellmongers who resided
here; their business was to dress the leather for the breeches makers of
Romford. A boar’s head is wrested on Christmas day, this is an ancient custom.
Hornchurch parish contains near 6,799 acres of arable, grass, and marsh lands;
it is bounded on the west and east by the rivers Ingerbourn and Rom, and by the
Thames
on the south. David McIntosh Esq, is the lord of the liberty; but most of the
land belongs to
New
College,
Oxford.
It is within the liberty of Havering ate Bower, Romford union, southern division
of Essex,
and contained in 1851, a population of 2,378. The living is a vicarage, value
£740, in the bishopric of Rochester, archdeaconry of Essex, deanery of Epping,
and gift of New College, Oxford, The Rev Daniel George Stacy, BCL, is the
incumbent, having been presented thereto in 1831. The church – an old, spacious
stone building dedicated to St Andrew – has a nave, chancel, north and south
aisles and porches, with a large square tower, turreted and embattled, crowned
with a neat spire, the whole rising 170 feet from the base; there is a peal of 6
bells and a clock. Hornchurch Hall, Great Nelmes, The Lodge, Fair Kytes,
Lanftons, and Britons are seats within this parish.
Haveringwell, 1 mile north of the village, is a hamlet of Hornchurch.
Gentry
Bearblock John, esq
Bearblock Peter, esq
De
Porquet Louis Fenwick esq, Fairkytes
Francis
John esq
Gutch
John Joseph Wm esq, Sutton’s gate
Hanson
George esq, Harrow Lodge
Mashiter
Thomas esq, The Lodge
Squires
Mr Geo Frederick, Grosvenor House
Stacy
Rev Daniel George, BCL
Truston
Mrs, Havering Well House
Tucker
Francis esq, Little Langtons
Wagener
John esq, Langtons
Walmesley Thomas G, esq, Great Nelmes
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