MORETON, a village and a parish in Ongar district, Essex. The village stands on an affluent of the river Roding, 3 miles N by W of Ongar r. station, and 5¾ NE of Epping; and has a post office under Ongar. The parish comprises 1,421 a.res. Real property, £2,549. P op., 497. Houses, 104. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £375. * Patron, St. John s College, Cambridge. The church is a plain building, with brick tower and shingled spire. There are an Independent chapel, an endowed national school, with £35 a year, and charities £20.

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