Newman's End Explained

Country:England
Official Name:Newman's End
Coordinates:51.7905°N 0.1976°W
Shire District:Epping Forest
Shire County:Essex
Region:East of England
Constituency Westminster:Brentwood and Ongar
Postcode Area:CM
Postcode District:CM17
Dial Code:01279
Os Grid Reference:TL516124
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Static Image Caption:Cast iron pump, Newman's End
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Newman's End is a hamlet in the civil parish of Matching, and the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.

The hamlet, at the north of the parish, is less than 1miles north-west from Matching village and the parish church of St Mary, and 1 mile south-east from the village of Sheering, The M11 motorway is 1 mile to the west, with Junction 7 the closest access 5miles to the south-west.

History

At the then Smallway's Farm in the mid-1700s was a malt house, by at latest 1843 using grain from a field to the west of the farm. Parsonage Farm, still existing at the centre of the hamlet, of 63acres in 1745 and 56acres in 1843, was glebe land in the advowson of the trustees of Felsted School, until, in 1876, the rectory was bought by Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood of Down Hall in the then Hatfield Broad Oak, now Hatfield Heath parish.[1] At the north-east of Parsonage Farm are the remains of a possible medieval moat, now a scheduled monument.[2]

There are four Grade II listed structures at Newman's End:

Matching parish settlements

Notes and References

  1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol8/pp196-206 "Matching"
  2. 373305. Monument no.373305. 25 January 2018.