EPPING, a parish comprising the market town of Epping, and the chapelry of Epping Upland, in the hundred of WALTHAM, and the hamlet of Ryhill, in the hundred of HARLOW, county of ESSEX, and containing 2146 inhabitants, of which number, 1688 are in the town of Epping, 17½ miles (W by S) from Chelmsford, and 16 (N E by N) from London, on the road to Newmarket.
The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the court of the Commissary of London concurrently with the Consistorial Episcopal Court, rated in the king’s books at £17 13 4, endowed with £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Henry John Conyers, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints. A small chapel of ease has been recently erected. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends and Independents.
RYHILL, a hamlet in the parish of EPPING, hundred of WALTHAM, though locally in the hundred of Harlow, county of ESSEX, 2¾ miles (N W) from Epping. The population is returned with the chapelry of Epping Upland.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Epping Baptisms DP 302-1-1 1539-1581
Epping Baptisms DP 302-1-2 1558-1632
Epping Marriages DP 302-1-1 1539-1581
Epping Marriages DP 302-1-2 1558-1632
Epping Burials DP 302-1-1 1539-1581
Epping Burials DP 302-1-2 1558-1632
Further registers for Epping are included in the FreeREG database.
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