Sandon, Essex Genealogy

England   Essex   Essex Parishes

Parish History
SANDON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Chelmsford, S. division of Essex, 9, miles (W. by S.) from Danbury; containing 531 inhabitants. This place, shortly after the Conquest, belonged to the descendants of Hardwin de Scales, a Norman warrior; and among subsequent owners, occur the families of de Valence and Beauchamp. The lands afterwards passed to the crown, and in the time of Henry VIII. were given to Cardinal Wolsey; on his fall they reverted to the crown, and they have since been possessed by various families, including those of Goodey, Everard, Maynard, Abdy, Wiseman, and Collins. The parish comprises by computation 1943 acres; the soil in the lower parts is chiefly a stiff wet loam, resting on clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £13. 16. 8., and in the gift of Queen's College, Cambridge: the tithes have been commuted for £700, and the glebe consists of 24 acres. The church is a small edifice with a tower, and near it is the rectory-house, a neat residence. The learned Dr. Brian Walton, author of the Polyglot Bible, was rector.

From: Samuel A. Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 15-20. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51255 Date accessed: 12 April 2011.

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Probate records
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