Lindsell Essex Family History Guide
Lindsell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Other places in the parish include: Holders Green and Bustard Green.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1568
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
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. Value, £204. Patron, S. Alger, Esq. The church belonged anciently to Walden abbey; and consists of nave and chancel, with a tower.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Dunmow
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Dunmow
- Poor Law Union: Dunmow
- Hundred: Dunmow
- Province: Canterbury