England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Eastwick lies in the extreme east of Hertfordshire forming part of the border with neighbouring Essex. Eastwick is located about 4 miles southwest of the market town of Sawbridgeworth and lies on, and just north of, the A414 road which connects the Essex new town of Harlow with the Hertfordshire town of Hertford. Eastwick is a small and compact riverside settlement nestling on the northern banks of the River Stort and just about maintains its integrity from the growing urban sprawl of Harlow thanks to that river. With its riverside setting Eastwick would have had a mixed farming regime, grazing cattle on the watermeadows and cereals growing on the drier northern portions of the parish. Modern developments did come to the parish with the Stort Navigation alongside the river being superseded by the Bishop's Stortford to London rail line which follows the southern side of the Stort valley. The Stort drains the parish the short distance westward to join the River Lea, thence down through the eastern edge of the capital to reach the outer Thames and the North Sea. Eastwick is sited at around 40 metres above the sea, out from the immediate valley there is gently rolling countryside rising to local heights of 80 metres within a couple of miles. Eastwick parish was one of the smaller in the area covering just under 850 acres it would only have supported a population of just over 150 parishioners. In Domesday times Eastwick was an equally small place, held by one Geoffrey de Bec it could offer just 5 ploughs, the usual meadows & woodland albeit it did possess a mill. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 11th November 1755 - 24th March 1812 | Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies - Reference - DP/35/1/4 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Unfortunately this register suffers notably from bleedthrough of ink from backing entries and when combined with sporadic poor handwriting may lead to one or two misreads |
2 | 29th June 1813 - 30th August 1834 | Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies - Reference - DP/35/1/5 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Hunsdon
St Dunstan
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Widford
St John the Baptist
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Sawbridgeworth
St Mary the Great
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Hunsdon
St Dunstan
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Sawbridgeworth
St Mary the Great
Gilston St Mary |
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Great
Parndon St Mary, Essex
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Great
Parndon St Mary, Essex
Little Parndon St Mary, Essex |
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