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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ridgewell like this:
RIDGWELL, a village and a parish in Halstead district, Essex. The village stands on the Via Devana, 1¾mile N W of Yeldham r. station, and 5½ S E of Haverhill; occupies the site of a Roman settlement; has yieldedmany British and Roman antiquities, including parts of a Roman villa; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Halstead. ...
The parish comprises 1, 717 acres. Real property, £3, 619. Pep., 795. Houses, 166. The property is subdivided. R. Hall is a farm-house. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £192.* Patron, St. Catherine College, Cambridge. The church is tolerable. There is an Independent chapel.
Ridgewell is now part of BRAINTREE District. Click here for graphs and data of how BRAINTREE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ridgewell itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ridgewell, in Braintree and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6874
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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