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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Black Chapel like this:
BLACK-CHAPEL, a chapelry in Great Waltham parish, Essex; on the river Chelmer, 4½ miles N of Chelmsford r. station. Post Town, Great Waltham, under Chelmsford. Statistics with the parish. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £80. Patrons, Trustees.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Black Chapel by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Barnston | 0 | 2 |
| Ford End | 0 | 1 |
| Great Waltham | 0 | 3 |
| Pleshy | 3 | 2 |
| Little Dunmow | 1 | 3 |
| High Easter | 0 | 3 |
| Felsted | 1 | 2 |
| Great Dunmow | 7 | 4 |
| Little Leighs | 0 | 2 |
| Mashbury | 0 | 2 |
| Chignall Smealy | 0 | 2 |
| High Roding | 1 | 3 |
| Good Easter | 0 | 3 |
| Stebbing | 0 | 2 |
| Aythorpe Roding | 1 | 3 |
| Great Leighs | 0 | 3 |
| Little Canfield | 0 | 3 |
| Little Waltham | 0 | 3 |
| Great Canfield | 0 | 3 |
| Great Saling | 0 | 2 |