TAKELEY, a parish in the hundred of UTTLESFORD, county of ESSEX, 2¾ miles (S E by E) from Stansted-Mountfitchet, containing 1134 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of Essex and Herts, concurrently with the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of London, rated in the king’s books at £11, and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. There is a place, of worship for Independents. A small priory was founded here, in the reign of Henry I, as a cell to the abbey of St Valery in Picardy.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Takeley Baptisms DP 225-1-1 1663-1812
Takeley Burials DP 225-1-1 1663-1812
Takeley Marriages DP 225-1-1 1663-1755
Takeley Marriages DP 225-1-2 1754-1787
Takeley Marriages DP 225-1-3 1787-1812
Further registers for Takeley are included in the FreeREG database.
- Takeley is part of the Uttlesford Hundred
- Takeley local history society
- History of Takeley
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