Gilston
Adjacent Parishes: Eastwick, Latton (Essex), Netteswell (Essex), Sawbridgeworth
It is in the Braughing Hundred and the Ware Union
The Ford at Gilston -
posted 1904
Gilston is a village in the Braughin Hundred, 25½ miles from London, 1 mile from Burntmill Station, and 4 miles west from Sawbridgeworth, with an area of 920 acres, and a population, in 1841, of 246. Here is an old church. The living is a rectory, in the gift of the Bishop of London; the Rev. George Moody is the incumbent. The assessment to the Income Tax was £1,157 , in 1842.
| Moody Rev. George [rector]
Pearse Brice esq Camp Robert, blacksmith |
Forster Mrs Mary, 'Plumer Ward's Arms'
Harding Mrs. farmer |
Herrington Joseph, farmer
Pryor James, farmer Letters received thro' Sawbridgeworth |
Post Office Directory, Hertfordshire, 1851
Web: See the Eastwich & Gilston parish site
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Gilston probably 1920'd |
See also Vital Records
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