Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex Genealogy

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Parish History
STANSTEAD-MOUNTFITCHET, a village and a parish in the district of Bishop-Stortford and county of Essex. The village stands on the river Stort, and the London and Cambridge railway, 2¾ miles NE of Bishop-Stortford; consists of two streets; and has a post-office.‡ under Bishop-Stortford, a r. station, a literary institution and reading room, and a fair on 1 May. The parish includes the hamlet of Bentfield, and comprises 4,193 acres. Real property, £8,990. Pop., 1,769. Houses, 381. The manors of S. and Burnell, with S. Hall, belong to W. F. Maitland, Esq.; and that of Bentfield, to R. Gosling, Esq. A castle was built here by W. G. Montfitchet, and is now represented by only a mound. A Benedictine priory was founded at Thremhall, about 1258, by R. Montfitchet; and has left some vestiges. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £306.* Patron, W. F. Maitland, Esq. The church was built in 1692, and the chancel was partly restored in 1861. An Independent chapel, in the Lombardo-Venetian style, was built in 1865. There are also a Quakers' chapel and a parochial school.

John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870)

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Church records
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Probate records
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