In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hatfield Peverel like this:
HATFIELD-PEVEREL, a village and a parish in Witham district, Essex. The village stands adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, near the river Ter, 2 miles SW of Witham; and has a post office under Chelmsford, and a fair on Whit-Tuesday. The parish comprises 4, 728 acres. Real property, £10, 777. ...
Pop., 1, 311. Houses, 289. The property is divided among a few. The manor was given, by the Conqueror, to Ralph Peverel; passed to the Leighs and the Al1eynes; and belongs now to John Wright, Esq. A college for secular canons was founded here, by Ingelrica, the wife of Ralph Peverel; was changed, in the time of Henry I., into a Benedictine priory; and went, at the dissolution, to Giles Leigh. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £88.* Patron, John Wright, Esq. The church was the church of the priory; is Norman, in very good condition, with turret tower; and contains an effigies of the Lady Ingelrica. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £158.
Hatfield Peverel through time
Hatfield Peverel is now part of Braintree district. Click here for graphs and data of how Braintree has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hatfield Peverel itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hatfield Peverel, in Braintree and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6751
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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