Highwood, Essex Genealogy

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Chapel History
Highwood St Paul was a chapelry of Writtle, Essex Ancient Parish The church of St Paul is situated in Loves Green and was consecrated in 1842.

The diocese of Chelmsford was created in 1914, prior to this Essex parishes were in the jurisdiction of the Bishops of London until 1845 when they transferred to the diocese of Rochester. The diocese of Chelmsford has 474 parishes and 600 churches and is the second largest region in the church of England outside London.

A chapel was erected in the Highwood Quarter, and consecrated in Oct. 1842: it is built of red brick, is in the early English style, and cost £1200. There is a place of worship for Independents. Almshouses for six people were endowed with land now producing £55 per annum, by Thomas Hawkins, in 1607; and John Blencowe, in 1774, founded a school with an income of £82 per annum, of which two-thirds are given to the parish of Writtle, and the remainder to that of Roxwell. About four miles north-east of the church, in the middle of a wood, a hermitage was founded in the reign of Stephen, which in that of Henry II. was attached to St. John's Abbey, Colchester.

'Wrea - Writtle', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 695-698. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51433&amp;strquery=writtle Date accessed: 21 February 2011.

Highwood is a village in the Chelmsford District, in the county of Essex. An area of the village is called Loves Green. It is about a mile away from the A414 road and a few miles away from the town centre of Chelmsford. There is also the hamlet of Edney Common nearby.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Chelmsford Poor Law Union, Essex

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Essex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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