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Halstead in Essex County England History and GeographyHALSTEAD, a market town and parish in the hundred of HINCKFORD, county of ESSEX, 17½ miles (N.N.E.) from Chelmsford, and 47 (N.R.) from London, containing 3858 inhabitants. This town is situated on the river Colne, and on the high road from London to Norwich, through Bury-St. Edmund's: it is neither lighted nor paved, and is supplied with water from springs. In the reign of Elizabeth, the French Protestants being violently persecuted in their own country, many of them fled to England, and settling at Halstead and Colchester, introduced the manufacture of baize and says, now discontinued. A large silk-mill was erected a few years since on the site of a flour-mill, at which a considerable number of children is employed, and the trade is in a flourishing state. A market for corn is held on Friday; and there are cattle fairs on May 7th and October 29th. Courts leet and baron are held about once a year, by the Iord of the manor; and the petty sessions for the division of South Hinckford are held here every Friday. There is a house of correction, in which a tread-mill has been erected. The living is a viearage; in the peculiar 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 £17, and in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The church, dedicated to St. George, is a spacious edifice, chiefly in the later English style, except the chancel, which is decorated; and the spire is constructed of wood, in place of one destroyed by lightning about eighty years ago. It probably belonged to a college of priests, founded here in the 14th of Edward IV., the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £26. 5. 8. Here are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, and Independents. A free grammar school was founded by Lady Ramsey, in 1594, for the education of forty children belonging to the parishes of Halstead and Colne-Engaine, and endowed with a rent-charge of £20 and a house for the master, under the patronage of the Governors of Christ's Hospital, London. Mr. Martin, in 1573, left lands producing £130 per annum; and Mrs. Holmes, in 1783, left £4000 three per cents., for the benefit of the poor of this parish. Thomas Bourchier, Arehbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Edward IV., a distinguished patron of literature, was a native of Halstead. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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