Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOCKERILL

HOCKERILL, a chapelry in Bishop-Stortford parish, Herts; adjacent to Essex and to the Eastern Counties railway, 1 mile NE of Bishop-Stortford. It was constituted in 1852; and its post town is Bishop-Stortford. Pop., 1, 467. Houses, 246. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church was built in 1852; consists of nave, chancel, and S aisle; and contains 500 sittings.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bishops Stortford CP/AP       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Hockerill

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