Great Bardfield

St Mary the Virgin, Great Bardfield

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.