Toppesfield, Essex

Description
Toppesfield, a parish, with a village, in Essex, 1 1/2 mile SW of Yeldham station on the Colne Valley branch of the G.E.R., 8 miles NW from Halstead, and 50 from London. It has a post office under Halstead; money order and telegraph office, Great Yeldham. Acreage, 3361; population, 796. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £560 with residence, in the gift of the Crown. The church, erected in 1519 and restored in 1895, is a building in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, N and S porches, and an embattled western tower of brick, built in 1699 after the fall of the original steeple. It has a very ancient font and some old tombs and memorials. There is a Congregational chapel.