Belchamp St Paul, Essex Family History Guide

Belchamp St Paul is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.

Other places in the parish include: Hall Field.

Alternative names: Belchamp St Pauls

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1538
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Ashen
• Little Yeldham
• Cavendish, Suffolk
• Belchamp Otten
• Tilbury juxta Clare
• Ovington
• Clare, Suffolk
• Pentlow

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BELCHAMP-ST. PAUL, a parish in the district of Sudbury and county of Essex; on the river Stour, 6 miles WNW of Sudbury r. station. It has a post office under Sudbury, and a fair on 11 Dec. Acres, 2,557. Real property, £4,209. Pop., 832. Houses, 179. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a meet for the East Essex hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £240. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s. The church is very good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Essex
• Civil Registration District: Sudbury
• Probate Court: Pre-1845 - Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral, Post-1844 - Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
• Diocese: Post-1844 - Rochester, Pre-1845 - London
• Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 - None, Post 1844 - Yeldham
• Poor Law Union: Sudbury
• Hundred: Hinckford
• Province: Canterbury