BARDFIELD (Great), a village and a parish in Dunmow district, Essex. The village stands on Blackwater river, 9 miles NW of Braintree r. station. It has a post-office‡ under Braintree, a new town hall, a police station, and a fair on 22 Jan.; and is a seat of petty sessions. The parish comprises 3,689 acres. Real property, £6,715. Pop., 1,065. Houses, 259. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £262.* Patron, Representatives of late Rev. B. E. Lampet. The church is old. There are three dissenting chapels, two public schools, and charities £72.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))