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Lindsell  Essex

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lindsell like this:

LINDSELL, a village and a parish in Dunmow district, Essex. The village stands on a small affluent of the river Chelmer, 3½ miles SE of Thaxted, and 5 NNE of Dunmow r. station.—The parish contains also the hamlets of Holders-Green and Bustard-Green; and its Post town is Stebbing, under Chelmsford. ...


Acres, 1,959. Real property, £2,710. Pop., 385. Houses, 84. The property is much subdivided. The manor of Lindsell Hall belonged, before the Conquest, to Ulmar; was given, by the Conqueror, to Eudo Dapifer; and passed to the Pirots, the Tibetots, the Wentworths, the Norths, and others. Lindsell Hall is the residence of Stephen Alger, Esq. Priors Hall belonged once to the priory of St. Valery, in Picardy. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Valne, £204. Patron, S. Alger, Esq. The church belonged anciently to Walden abbey; and consists of nave and chancel, with a tower.

Lindsell through time

Lindsell is now part of Uttlesford district. Click here for graphs and data of how Uttlesford has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lindsell itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lindsell, in Uttlesford and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6763

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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