Gestingthorpe Essex Family History Guide
Gestingthorpe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Alternative names: Guestingthorpe
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1610
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629; 1639; 1800
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Adjacent Parishes
- Little Yeldham
- Little Maplestead
- Pebmarsh
- Castle Hedingham
- Belchamp Walter
- Great Maplestead
- Wickham St Paul
- Bulmer
- Belchamp North End
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GESTINGTHORPE, or Guestingthorpe, a village and a parish in the district of Sudbury and county of Essex.
The village stands on a small affluent of the river Stour, 3¼ miles NNE of Castle-Hedingbam r. station, and 4¼ WSW of Sudbury; and has a post-office under Halstead. The parish comprises 2, 630 acres. Real property, £5, 103. Pop., 769. Houses, 183. The property is much subdivided.
The living is twofold, a vicarage and a sinecure rectory, in the diocese of Rochester. Value of the vicarage, £150; of the rectory, £454. Patron of both, P. Elwes, Esq. The church is old but good; and has a tower. Charities, £16.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
GESTINGTHORPE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Sudbury, hundred of Hinckford, N. division of Essex, 2½ miles (N. E.) from Castle-Hedingham, and on the road from London to Sudbury; containing 834 inhabitants.
The parish is separated on the north from Belchamp-Walter by a small rivulet, and comprises 2609a. 3r. 13p., of which 2300 acres are arable, 155 pasture, and 155 woodland; the soil is generally strong and heavy, but in some parts a rich loam intermixed with sand.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £7; there is also a sinecure rectory, valued at £13. 6. 8.: patron of both, J. P. Elwes, Esq. The rectorial tithes have been commuted for £520, and the vicarial for £183; the glebes respectively comprise 96 and 34 acres. The church is a handsome edifice of brick, with a tower, and contains a curious font; the altar is adorned with a painting of the Ascension, and there is a monument of a Knight Templar.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Sudbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Hedingham
- Poor Law Union: Sudbury
- Hundred: Hinckford
- Province: Canterbury