Manuden Essex

Manuden (or Manewden) is a parish in the Western Division of the county, Clavering hundred, Bishop's Stortford union and county court district, Newport rural deanery, Colchester Archdeaconry and St. Albans diocese, on the river Stort, 2 miles north-west from Stansted station, 34 from London by road and 4 north from Bishop's Stortford and the Lee navigation.
The church of St. Mary, given by Richard de Corneville and Alice his wife to the monks of St. Melan, in Bretagne and formerly a cruciform building underwent a thorough restoration in 1864 at a cost of £1200 and consists of a chancel, nave, north transept, south aisle and porch and an embattled tower surmounted by a spire and containing 5 bells: a richly-carved screen separates the chancel and nave.
The register dates from the year 1561.
The living is a vicarage, yearly value £215 commuted tithes, with residence and three acres of glebe, in the gift of Sir C. Horne and Mrs B.A.Thomas and held by the Rev. Joseph Bernard Forster M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. The vicarage house has been restored. Lannoy Arthur Coussmaker esq. of Westwood, Surrey, is impropriator of the tithes, which are commuted at £630.
Here is a Congregational chapel.
A Pleasure fair is held on Easter Monday.
Manuden House, a large, plain modern mansion, the seat of Mrs. Thomas, is situated in the village. Manuden Hall is a large and ancient building of the seat of Robert Gosling esq. who is lord of the two manors, Battles Hall and Manuden Hall and principal landowner. The soil is mixed, but principally heavy; subsoil, clay, chalk and gravel. The crops are on the four and five course shifts. The area is 2486 acres; rateable value, £3777 ; and the population in 1881 was 721.
MALLOW GREEN is one mile and a half west.

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