HATFIELD-BROAD-OAK, or HATFIELD-REGIS, a parish in the hundred of HARLOW, county of ESSEX, 6 miles (N E by E) from Harlow, comprising the townships of Brumsend-quarter, Heath-quarter, Town-quarter, and Woodrow-quarter, and containing 1693 inhabitants. The living is a discharged 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 £7 11s, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St Mary, comprises portions in the later English style, with some of an earlier date. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here are some almshouses. Adjoining the church, which was then conventual, stood a priory of Black canons, founded by Albeni de Vere, in 1135, and dedicated to God, St Mary, and St Melanius Redenensis, the revenue of which, at the time of the dissolution, was £157 3s 2d
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831)
Hatfield Broad Oak Baptisms DP 4-1-8 1557-1727
Hatfield Broad Oak Baptisms DP 4-1-9 1728-1789
Hatfield Broad Oak Baptisms DP 4-1-10 1790-1812
Hatfield Broad Oak Burials DP 4-1-8 1660-1728
Hatfield Broad Oak Burials DP 4-1-9 1728-1789
Hatfield Broad Oak Burials DP 4-1-10 1790-1812
Hatfield Broad Oak Marriages DP 4-1-8 1660-1727
Hatfield Broad Oak Marriages DP 4-1-9 1728-1754
Hatfield Broad Oak Marriages DP 4-1-14 1754-1804
Hatfield Broad Oak Marriages DP 4-1-15 1804-1812
Further registers for Birchanger are included in the FreeREG database.
- Hatfield Broad Oak was part of the Harlow Hundred
- Hatfield Broad Oak
- history of Hatfield Broad Oak
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