Wennington 1863 Whites Directory

WENNINGTON is a marshland parish of scattered houses, on the north side of the river Thames, from 1 to 2 miles W.N.W. of Purfleet, 8 miles S.S.E. of Romford, and 14 miles E. of London. It contains 177 inhabitants, and 1285A. 2R. 39p. of land; and
belonged to Westminster Abbey before the Conquest, and was afterwards held by the Moresco, Noke, Warner, and other families. Hall Dare, Esq., is lord of the manor of Wennington, and Sir T. B. Lennard is lord of the manor of Noke, which lies in the marshes, and
was long the seat of a family of its own name. Part of the parish belongs to a few smaller owners, mostly freeholders. The western part of the parish, where a small rivulet falls into the Thames, is called COLD HARBOUR. The Church (St. Mary and St. Peter) is an
ancient structure, with an embattled tower, and stands on an eminence, above the marshes. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £8, and in 1831 at £373, is in the patronage of the Bishop of Peterborough, and incumbency of the Rev. George Wm. Curtis, B.A., of
Padworth, Berkshire. Here is no parsonage house, and the glebe is only four acres. The tithes_ were commuted in 1839, for £440 per annum. The poor parishioners have two yearly rent-charges of 10s. each out of two houses, one in this parish, and the other at
Rainham; but the donors are unknown.

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