Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ALDBOROUGH HATCH

ALDBOROUGH HATCH, a chapelry in Great Ilford parish, Essex; 1½ mile NE of Ilford r. station, and 8½ miles ENE of Bishopsgate. It has a post office under Ilford, London E. The famous Fairlop oak stood near it, 36 feet in girth of bole, and 300 feet in circumference of head. Hainault forest, adjacent on the N, was part of the old great forests of the country. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, not reported. Patron, the Crown. A new church was built in 1863.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Essex AncC
Place: Aldborough Hatch

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