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Bartlow End, also called Stevington End, in Essex, was a hamlet in the parish of Ashdon, Essex, and a separate civiol parish from 1866 to 1946. Ecclesiastically it was part of Bartlow, though always in Essex.
"BARTLOW is a small village and parish, near the road from Cambridge to Haverhill; it is the junction station of the lines from Haverhill and Saffron Walden to Cambridge on the London and North Eastern way, and is 2 miles south-east from Linton, 13 south-east from Cambridge and 49 by rail from London, in the hundred of Chilford, union and patty sessional division of Linton, county court district of Saffron Walden, rural deanery of Camps, archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. The village of Bartlow is in the county of Cambridge, but the hamlet of Bartlow (or Steventon) End, as it is otherwise called, is in the county of Essex; but for ecclesiastical purposes is part of Bartlow."
"Near the village are four (formerly six) very remarkable artificial hills, excavated in the years 1832, 1835 and 1838, and described in vols. 25, 26 and 28 of the "Archaeologia," by Rokewood Gage esq. who distinctly proves them to be Roman works; many curious and valuable sepulchral relics, discovered in these hills and deposited at Easton Lodge, near Dunmow, the seat of the Countess of Warwick, were unfortunately lost in the fire by which that mansion was destroyed; these hills are actually in the parish of Ashdon, but are called Bartlow Hills from their being close to that village. Bartlow House is the seat of Charles Gerald Brocklebank esq. M.C. who is the principal landowner. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats beans and barley. The parish contains 377 acres; the population in 1921 was 94 in the civil parish and 216 the ecclesiastical, which extends into Essex."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of St. Mary are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office for the years 1670-1988. These inscriptions are also available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office, the 1841 census covers only the Cambridge portion of Bartlow. In addition the 1851 Census for Bartlow is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Mary, ancient edifice of flint and rubble in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, was partially restored in 1879; it consists of chancel, nave, north porch and circular embattled western tower containing 3 bells : on the south wall of the nave is a fresco of Christopher, the Roman soldier, carrying the infant Saviour over a ford: in 1927 a fresco of 1450 A.D. was discovered on the south wall of the nave, the subject being St. Michael weighing the good and evil deeds of a human soul in a pair of scales : the tower, which is much older than the body of the church, has walls feet in thickness: the chancel retains a piscina and there is another in the south wall of the nave. The church affords 140 sittings. The register dates from the year 1573."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
Bartlow, St. Mary: Records of baptisms 1573-1971, marriages 1573-1643, 1660-1843, burials 1573-1812, banns for 1754-1896 reside in the Cambridge Record Office.The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1600-40, 1662-70, 1680-85 and 1695-1862 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexes to transcripts exist in Cambridge Record Office for baptisms 1573-1862, marriages 1573-1643, 1660-1843, and burials 1573-1862. The parish record transcripts for St Mary 1573-1866 are available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
The Bartlow War Memorial has been transcribed and and the men researched, it stands in the village centre.
Land Tax: records were compiled afresh each year and contain the names of owners and occupiers in each parish, but usually there is no address or place name. These records reside in the Cambridge Record Office for the years 1759-63, 1789-1846 and 1865-1948 for the Cambridgeshire portion only.
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