Great Saling Essex Family History Guide
Great Saling is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. James
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1715
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SALING (Great), a village and a parish in Braintree district, Essex.
The village stands 4½ miles N W by W of Braintree r. station; dates from before the time of Edward the Confessor; and has a post-office under Braintree.
The parish comprises 1, 651 acres. Real property, £2, 605. Pop., 361. Houses, 72. S. Grove is the seat of Mrs. Fowke.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £150. Patron, W. V. Fowke, Esq. The church was restored in 1865.
There are a national school, and charities £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SALING, GREAT (St. James), a parish, in the union of Braintree, hundred of Hinckford, N. division of Essex, 5 miles (N. W. by W.) from the town of Braintree; containing 349 inhabitants.
It comprises 1651a. 11p. of land, chiefly arable, and is intersected by a rivulet which rises in the parish of Great Bardfield, and falls into the Blackwater; the soil is various, but generally fertile.
The village is pleasantly situated on a green of triangular form, comprising about five acres.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £7, and in the gift of the Rev. Bartlet Goodrich: the tithes have been commuted for £34 to Guy’s Hospital, £55 to the impropriator, £35 to the vicar of Felstead, and £141 to the incumbent of Great Saling. The church is supposed to have been erected in the reign of Henry II., and contains monuments to the Yeldham, Goodrich, and Sheddon families.
Formerly, the two parishes of Great Saling and Little or Bardfield Saling were one district; and at the time of the Domesday survey they belonged to the same lord: Saling had also been held undivided in the reign of Edward the Confessor.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Braintree
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Hedingham
- Poor Law Union: Braintree
- Hundred: Hinckford
- Province: Canterbury