Arkesden Essex Family History Guide
Arkesden is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St Mary the Virgin
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1690
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1800
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ARKESDEN, a parish in Saffron-Walden district, Essex; on an affluent of the river Stort, 2½ miles W of Newport r. station, and 5 SW of Saffron-Walden. Post-town, Newport under Bishop-Stortford. Acres, 2,320. Real property, £3,207. Pop., 506. Houses, 111. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £181. Patron, the Rev. W. B. Wolfe. The church is very good, and contains a brass of a knight.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Arkesden, 3 m. S.W. Saffron-Waldron. P. 498.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ARKESDEN (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Saffron-Walden, hundred of Uttlesford, N. division of Essex, 3 miles (E.) from Newport, and 9 miles (N.) from Bishop-Stortford; containing 498 inhabitants. It comprises 2297a. 2r. 28p.; the surface is undulated, the soil a heavy and tenacious clay.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £13. 6. 8.; net income, £181; patron and impropriator, R. B. Wolfe, Esq. It was formerly endowed with a portion of the great tithes, which were commuted for land and a corn-rent, under an inclosure act, in 1814. The church, a spacious and handsome structure with a square embattled tower, in the later English style, is finely situated on the slope of a hill; the north aisle was built by Thomas Alderton, of London, who founded a chantry here in the reign of Hen. VII.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Maps
OS Grid Reference: TL4798434147 (all-numeric format: 547985 234148) Lat/Long: 51.985619, 0.15526
Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Saffron Walden
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Newport
- Poor Law Union: Saffron Walden
- Hundred: Uttlesford
- Province: Canterbury