Lambourne with Abridge Essex Family History Guide

Lambourne with Abridge is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Other places in the parish include: Abridge.

Alternative names: Lambourne

Parish church: St Mary and All Saints

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1582
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Lambourne

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LAMBOURNE, a village and a parish in Ongar district, Essex. The village stands near Hainault forest, 1¼ mile SE of the river Roding, 3½ E by S of Loughton r. station, and 5 NNW of Romford; is an ancient place, mentioned in Domesday book; and has a post-office under Romford.

The parish contains also the village of Abridge. Acres, 2,440. Real property, £5,320. Pop., 890. Houses, 175. The property is divided among a few. Bishops Hall was the residence of Bishop Spencer of Norwich, who suppressed Keat’s rebellion; and is now the seat of Col. W. M. Wood. Patch Park is the seat of E. E. Eliot, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Abridge, in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £610. Patron, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The church is ancient, and has a Norman door. There are a chapel of ease at Abridge, an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £20.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

LAMBOURN, or Lambourne (St. Mary and All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Ongar, S. division of Essex, 5½ miles (N. N. W.) from Romford; containing 904 inhabitants. It is intersected by the river Roding, and comprises by measurement 2437 acres, of which 737 are arable, 1296 pasture, 118 wood, 229 forest, and 24 common; the soil is heavy, but the substratum light, and rather inclining to chalk.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £14, and in the patronage of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: the tithes have been commuted for £600, and the glebe comprises 34 acres. The church, a neat rustic building, consists of a nave and chancel, with a leaden spire: in the chancel are three windows of stained glass, and a fourth contains five pieces of curious and valuable old painting; near the altar is a tablet to the memory of Wynnyffe, who, nearly two centuries since, was rector of Lambourn and Bishop of Lincoln.

A chapel was built in 1833, in the village of Abridge, where is also a place of worship for Wesleyans. Spencer, who was a soldier in the army of Pope Adrian in his wars against the Duke of Milan, and who in 1370 was made Bishop of Norwich, lived in the parish.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Abridge

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ABRIDGE, a hamlet, in the parish of Lambourn, union and hundred of Ongar, S. division of Essex, 6½ miles (N. N. W.) from Romford. This place, which is on the high road to Chipping-Ongar, and is bounded on the north by the river Roding, was formerly called Affebruge, or Affebridge; it has within the last few years rapidly increased, and contains several handsome houses. A chapel of ease was erected in 1833; and there is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848