CHIGWELL, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Epping district, Essex. The village stands adjacent to-the river Roding, near Epping forest, 1 ½ mile ESE of Buckhurst Hill r. station, and 6 SSW of Epping; and has a post-office under London NE., and a fair on 30 Sept. The parish includes also the village of Chigwell-Row. Acres, 4,522. Real property, £15,661. Pop., 2,676. Houses, 474. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £500. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church has traces of Norman; is good; and contains brasses of 1540 and 1631. The p. curacies of Buckhurst and Chigwell-Row are separate benefices. A school, founded in 1629 by Archbishop Harsnet, has £340 from endowment; and other charities have £74. Archbishop Harsnet, and Beloe, the translator of Herodotus, were vicars; and Penn, the Quaker, was educated in the school.—The sub-district contains four parishes. Acres, 12,634. Pop., 5,987. Houses, 1,143.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
