MAYLAND, a parish in Maldon district, Essex; midway between the rivers Blackwater and Crouch, 6 ½ miles SE of Maldon r. station. Post town, Maldon. Acre's, 2,030. Real property, £3,166. Pop., 225. Houses, 50. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to St. Bartholomew's hospital, London. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value., £142. Patron, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. The church was rebuilt in 1867, and is in the early English style. Bishop Ganden, the author or editor of part of "Eikon Basilike, ''was a native.

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