Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WALTHAM (Little)

WALTHAM (Little), a parish, with a village, in Chelmsford district, Essex; 3½ miles N of Chelmsford r. station. It has a post-office under Chelmsford. Acres, 2,227. Real property, £5,169. Pop., 684. Houses, 156. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £610.* Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, an endowed school with £50 a year, and charities £.150.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Little Waltham CP/AP       Chelmsford RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place names: LITTLE WALTHAM     |     WALTHAM     |     WALTHAM LITTLE
Place: Little Waltham

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