Broomfield, Essex
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| District | Chelmsford |
| Shire county | Essex |
| Region | East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CHELMSFORD |
| Postcode district | CM1 |
| Dialling code | 01245 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| European Parliament | East of England |
| List of places: UK • England • Essex | |
Broomfield is a small village situated immediately to the north of Chelmsford, in central Essex. Importantant features of the village include a large hospital of the same name, two pubs (the Kings Arms and the Angel), a church, a primary school and secondary school, and Broomfield Football Club.
Broomfield Hospital (also often referred to as simply 'Broomfield') is one of the largest in the East of England. It is both nationally and internationally renowned as a specialist centre for Plastics & Burns treatment.[1]
Chelmer Valley High School, the local secondary school, is situated next to the hospital and is the main catchment school for the Chelmsford area, along with The Boswells School in Springfield.
[edit] White's Directory of Essex 1848
BROOMFIELD is a pleasant scattered village, with many good houses, 2½ miles North of Chelmsford, on the road to Braintree, Dunmow, etc., and on the western side of the vale of the Chelmer, of which it commands pleasing views. Its parish is very fertile, and contains 820 souls, and 1,954 acres. Lady Stewart is lady of the principal manors; but there are in parish several small freehold manors and estates, belonging to various owners, and bearing different names, as stated in the following Directory, Butler's, the seat of Miss Seabrook, formerly belonged to the Butler, Pascal, and other families; and the mansion was built in the latter part of the last century, by the Rev. J. White, who also improved the gardens and grounds. Broomfield Place is the residence of Charles King, Esq.
The Church (St. Mary,) stands on a gentle eminence, near the village green. It is an ancient structure, with a massive round tower at the west end, surmounted by a wooden spire, remarkable for the great quantity of timber used in its construction. Round towers are very common in Norfolk and Suffolk, and are generally attributed to the Danes. The nave has a north aisle, separated from it by pillars and circular arches, modernised. There is a remnant of a wooden screen between the nave and chancel, and in some of the windows are fragments of stained glass. A small north chancel was added about 30 years ago, but it was not in keeping with the rest oh the fabric. In 1226, Walter de Mandeville gave the rectory to the Prior of Holy Trinity, in London; but it now belongs to the Felsted Charity. The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £7.13s.4d., and in 1831 at £161. is in the patronage of the Bishop, and incumbency of the Rev. Henry Eley, M.A. The tithes were commuted in 1845, - the rectorial for £517.5s., and the vicarial for £194.10s. per annum. The Church Lands, given by John Gyne, in 1561, comprise 21A.1R.27P., let for £24, and Salmon Croft, 1A.1R.29P., let for £1.5s. The rents are applied in the service of the church, and in paying the cleric's salary. Three tenements, called Almshouses, are occupied by paupers, but the donor is unknown. A messuage, given to the poor by Thomas Woollard, in 1700, was used as the parish Workhouse till 1836, when it was divided into tenements for poor families. The Parish School was built by the late Thomas Christy, Esq., in 1831, and is now supported by subscription. It is in two rooms for boys and girls, and attended by about 160 children, who pay 1d. each per week.
[edit] External links
Chelmer Valley High School website
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Around the town of Chelmsford: Broomfield • Chelmer Village • Great Baddow • Springfield • North Melbourne Towns: Chelmsford • South Woodham Ferrers Villages: Bicknacre • Boreham • Chalk End • Chapel Row • Chatham Green • Chignal Smealy • Chignal St James • Cooksmill Green • Danbury • Downham • East Hanningfield • Fanner's Green • Ford End • Galleywood • Galleyend • Good Easter • Great Leighs • Great Oxney Green • Great Waltham • Highwood • Howe Green • Howe Street • Little Baddow • Little Leighs • Littley Green • Little Waltham • Margaretting • Margaretting Tye • Mashbury • Moulsham • Newney Green • North End • Pepper's Green • Pleshey • Ramsden Heath • Rettendon • Rettendon Place • Roxwell • Runwell • Sandon • South Hanningfield • Stock • Tye Green • West Hanningfield • Writtle • Woodham Ferrers |
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