Mashbury Parish Church
White's Directory of Essex 1848 and list of inhabitants had the following to say about Mashbury:
“MASHBURY, a small parish, 5½ miles North West of Chelmsford, has only 85 souls and 821 acres of land. T. W. Bramston, Esq., is lord of the manor, which was held by Uluric at the Conquest, and afterwards by the Mandeville, Fitz-Piers, Plantagenet, Lukin, and Petre families. Lord Rayleigh has a small estate here, and part of the parish is copyhold, subject to certain fines.
The Church is a small tiled building, with a wooden belfry and two bells, and the living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Chignal St. James. The glebe here is 16A. 1R., but the Rectory House was pulled down some years ago. The tithes were commuted in 1846 for £217.7s.9d. per annum.
The benefice of Mashbury was united in 1766 with that of Chignal St. James,. The church at Mashbury became redundant in 1986.
Mashbury is a very small parish situated in the centre of Essex, to the northwest of Chelmsford. Although only seven miles from Essex’s main town, Mashbury is rural in character. It is unusual in that its 37 households are scattered across the parish and there is no village centre.
Land use is mainly agricultural with wheat and oilseed rape being the principal crops. The narrow roads and numerous tracks, footpaths and bridleways are popular with walkers, cyclists and horse riders.
Although Mashbury is too small to include many civic amenities, it remains a parish independent of its larger and better known neighbours such as Good Easter, Pleshey and the Chignals.
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