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Hatfield Peverel in Old Picture Postcards: v. 1

By Fitch, Joyce P.

Hatfield Peverel in Old Picture Postcards: v. 1 Politics & History

Hatfield Peverel in Old Picture Postcards: v. 1

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Introduetion At the very heart ofEssex lies Hatfield Peverel. The parish is roughly square in shape, with the greatest proportion of inhabitants living south of the old Roman Road from London to Colchester and east of the River Ter. Today it is bypassed by theA12. Roman soldiers marched along the Street and their artefacts have been found in the village; together with the Saxons and Normans they were largely instrumental in the formation of the village that we know today. Links with the first Norman king, William the Conqueror, and his beautiful Saxon mistress, Ingelrica, conjure up a sense of romance that has never quite died. When William tired of Ingelrica, hers elf of noble birth, he married her off to Ranulph de Peverel, a favourite knight, who had distinguished hirnself at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is to Ingelrica's Saxon race that we owe the first known name of the village, HadfeIda, which is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1 086 and means: a clearing in the wild uncultivated ground. It is to Ranulph that we owe the name, PevereI. What a tiny community it must have been then. History teUs us that Ingelrica, repenting of past misdoings, founded a College ofSecular Canons in the village. After her death around 1100, her son, William Peverel, changed and enlarged this to a Benedictine priory of which only the parish church remains. In 1566 Hatfield Peverel, a village of around 500 souls, found itself at the centre of a storm concerning three wamen, each accused of being a witeh. They were tried at Chelmsford and one, Agnes Waterhouse, was found guilty and hanged. Thus the village holds the dubious honour of being home to one of the first Essex inhabitants to die on a charge ofwitchcraft. Slowly, oh so slowly, the population grew. By 1801, around 250 years later, it had reached a figure of 1 ,008 taking another century to clirnb to 1,204.
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Number of Pages:
86
Release Date:
1996-11-01
Publication Date:
1996-11-01
Publisher:
Europese Bibliotheek
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
9028861416
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