South Weald
| South Weald | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 St. Peters Church, South Weald | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ570938 |
| Location: | 51°37’19"N, -0°16’0"E |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | CM14 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Brentwood |
South Weald is a beautiful, tiny village by the western edge of Brentwood in south-western Essex. The village is clustered south of the parish church, and gives a name to a wider parish. North Weald is found six miles to the north-west.
South Weald contains Weald Country Park, among its former mansion's residents was Octavius Coope, a brewer and founder od Ind Coope and who sat in Parliament for three different seats; Great Yarmouth for just a year then for Middlesex and later for Brentford.
Hamlets around South Weald Parish include Coxtie Green, Pilgrims Hatch and Brook Street. One hamlet anciently in the parish, straddling the main road in the highest part of the parish, was Brentwood: now a major town.
Early history
The South Weald Camp covering about seven acres (divided by Sandpit Lane), has been dated back as far as the Iron Age.
The Domesday Book of 1086 records that the canon of Waltham Holy Cross still held the estate of South Weald. It records the manor as having ten villeins, six bordars and three serfs. The canons had two ploughs for their communal agriculture. The canons also had 25 swine, 65 sheep and other animals; the woodland was measured as capable of feeding 200 swine and there were 1½ acres of meadow..
The Tower Arms, the village pub, carries a datestone with the date 1704. A 1788 notes its name as 'Jewells', and that another, the Spread Eagle, stood on the other side of the road, west of the church. In 1684 it was called the Eagle and Crown and said to adjoin the churchyard.
The Old Vicarage carries the arms of the Bishop of London at the entrance. It is the fourth vicarage of which there is record.[1]
Sport and leisure
- Cricket: South Weald Cricket Club[2]
Weald Country Park is a 500-acre country park to the north of the village.
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References
- ↑ Ward, Gladys (1999). A History of South Weald and Brentwood. The Spenser Press LTD. pp. 7–10. ISBN 9780860253037.
- ↑ South Weald Cricket Club
- A History of the County of Essex - Volume 8 pp 74-90: Parishes: South Weald (Victoria County History)
Books
- 'Philosophical Transactions/Volume 54/An Account of the Effects of Lightening at South Weald, in Essex: An Account of the Effects of Lightening at South Weald, in Essex'
- Wilford, W.: 'A walk-around guide to the Parish Church of St Peter, South Weald' (1985, revised 1992 and 2002)
- Douglas Scott Hewett: 'The Church of St Peter, South Weald' 1950
- Ward, Gladys A.: 'A History of South Weald and Brentwood 1961'