Articles by lizcullen

Miss Langford’s shop was located towards the bottom of North Hill. She sold groceries and sweets and also served as the local newsagent . Each […]

The Sorrell family were shopkeepers in Little Baddow since at least the early 19th century, when Sarah Sorrell appeared as at witness at the inquest […]

Bassetts manor was named after Henry Bassett whose family held the manor in the 14th century. At that time, it was located where Bassetts farm […]

This house occupies a site associated within the medieval Manor of Riffhams. The latter was a satellite of nearby Graces Manor and may have been […]

Tofts is a Georgian property in the eastern part of Little Baddow. At the time of the Norman Conquest area was known as Middlemead and […]

Bowling Alley House on Wickhay Green dates back to Elizabethan times, when a 1593 lease described it as recently built near the bowling alley, a […]

Little Baddow water-mill can claim an older recorded history than any other building in the parish, for it is unique in being mentioned in the […]

References to a mill in Little Baddow, known as Huskards Mill or similar, date back to at least the Middle Ages. The original mill was […]

This was the site of the old Cock and Warren alehouse, run by James Jordon in the 1770s. The pub was renamed the Rodney Head […]

The parish church of St Mary’s was originally built shortly after the Norman Conquest and expanded in the centuries that followed. The oldest section is […]