MUNDON, a village and a parish in Maldon district, Essex. The village stands near a creek of the Blackwater estuary, 3½ miles S S E of Maldon r. station; and has a post-office under Maldon. The parish comprises 3, 761 acres of land, and 534 of water. Real property, £3, 942. Pop., 322. Houses, 60. Mundon Hall is the seat of T. Solly, Esq. Mundon Wash is a meet for the Essex Union hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £160. Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church is partly a stone building, with a brick chancel; and has, at the W end, a heavyhexagonal abutment, surmounted by a wooden belfry. Two children are entitled to gratuitous education at Maldon grammar school.

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