WALTHAM (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of CHELMSFORD, county of ESSEX, 4½ miles (N by W) from Chelmsford, containing, with the chapelry of Black-Chapel, 1883 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king’s books at £18 13 4, and hi the patronage of the President and Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St Mary and St Lawrence. The river Chelmer runs through the parish. Courts leet and baron are held here on the Thursday in Whitsun-week.
From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
BLACK CHAPEL, a chapelry in the parish of GREAT WALTHAM, hundred of CHELMSFORD, county of ESSEX, 9 miles (N by W) from Chelmsford.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Great Waltham baptisms DP 121-1-0 1565-1700
Great Waltham marriages DP 121-1-0 1565-1700
Great Waltham burials DP 121-1-0 1565-1700
Further registers for Great Waltham are included in the FreeReg database.
- Great Waltham is in the Chelmsford Hundred
- History of Great Waltham
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