Littlebury Essex Family History Guide
Littlebury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Other places in the parish include: Littlebury Green.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1545
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1800
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Wendens Ambo
- Ickleton, Cambridgeshire
- Little Chesterford
- Great Chesterford
- Saffron Walden
- Strethall
- Elmdon
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LITTLEBURY, a village and a parish in SaffronWalden district, Essex.
The village stands on the river Cam, and on an ancient Roman road, adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, 2 miles N of Audley-End r. station, and 2 W of Saffron-Walden; and has a post-office under Saffron-Walden.
The parish contains also the hamlet of Littlebury-Green, and comprises 2,300 acres. Real property, £5,288. Pop., 974. Houses, 191. The property is divided among a few.
The manor belonged, in the 9th century, to a monastery in the Isle of Ely; was given, by Queen Elizabeth, to Sutton, the founder of the Charterhouse; and passed to the Earls of Bristol.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £205. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church stands within the area of a Roman camp; is of considerable antiquity, plain and good; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; and contains four brasses, from 1520.
A chapel stood formerly at Chapel-Green, about 2 miles from the church.
There are an endowed school with £75 a year, and charities £33.
Winstanley, who built the first Eddystone lighthouse, and perished in it, was a native.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Directories
Post Office Directory of Essex, 1874 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1882 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1894 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1902 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, 1914 – Special Collections Online
Kelly’s Directory of Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex 1890 – Google Books
Poll Books
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: Pre-1847 – Newport, Post 1846 – Saffron Walden
- Poor Law Union: Saffron Walden
- Hundred: Uttlesford
- Province: Canterbury