BARDFIELD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of FRESHWELL, county of ESSEX, 4½ miles (E by S) from Thaxted, containing 887 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London, rated in the king’s books at £11 and in the patronage of Sir C M Burrell Bart. The church is dedicated to St Mary. The navigable river Blackwater runs through the parish. In 1584, William Benlows bequeathed property, producing about £30 per annum, for the education of children and other charitable purposes, to which sundry other endowments have since been added. Petty sessions for the hundred are held here every Thursday.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Great Bardfield Baptisms DP 67-1-1 1662-1729
Great Bardfield Baptisms DP 67-1-2 1730-1793
Great Bardfield Baptisms DP 67-1-3 1793-1812
Great Bardfield Burials DP 67-1-1 1662-1724
Great Bardfield Burials DP 67-1-2 1730-1793
Great Bardfield Burials DP 67-1-3 1793-1812
Great Bardfield Marriages DP 67-1-1 1662-1729
Great Bardfield Marriages DP 67-1-2 1730-1754
Great Bardfield Marriages DP 67-1-4 1754-1787
Great Bardfield Marriages DP 67-1-5 1788-1812
Further registers for Great Bardfield are included in the FreeReg database.
- Great Bardfield is part of the Freshwell Hundred
- History of Great Bardfield
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