Rickling, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
Rickling All Saints is an Ancient Parish in Essex.

RICKLING (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Saffron-Walden, hundred of Uttlesford, N. division of Essex, 6 miles (N.) from Bishop-Stortford; containing 445 inhabitants. The parish comprises 1356a. 31p., of which about 1083 acres are arable, 146 meadow and pasture, and 49 woodland. It is separated from the parish of Quendon by the road to Newmarket, on which the village, consisting of several neatly-built houses, is pleasantly situated. The manor-house, about a mile from the church, is a spacious quadrangular embattled structure, with a lofty gateway tower, and still retains much of its original grandeur. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £10; patron, the Bishop of London; appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. The great tithes have been commuted for £275, and the vicarial for £124; the appropriate glebe comprises 17 acres, and the vicarial 6. The church, an ancient edifice of stone, contains various interesting monumental inscriptions.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 665-668. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51237&amp;amp;strquery=rickling Date accessed: 15 February 2011.

Rickling is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Saffron Walden Poor Law Union, Essex

Probate records
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