TOPPESFIELD, a parish, with a village, in Halstead district, Essex; 2 miles SW of Yeldham r. station. It has a fair on 20 July. Post town, Halstead. Acres, 3,320. Real property, £4,886. Pop., 1,045. Houses, 214. The property is much subdivided. Roman relics were found in 1800. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £900.* Patron, the Crown. The church was built in 1519, and is good. There are an Independent chapel, an endowed school with £10 a year, and charities £29.

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