Chrishall, Essex

Description
Chrishall, a parish in Essex, 5 miles W of Audley-End station on the G.E.R., and 7 W of Saffron-Walden. It has a post office under Royston; money order and telegraph office, Heydon. Acreage, 2789; populatton, 547. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £194 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of St Albans. The church is an ancient building of flint, has a canopied brass of the 14th century, and two other brasses. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Bilden End and Chrishall Grange are adjacent hamlets.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5