Articles by lizcullen

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 […]

Little Baddow Chapel dates to the early 18th century making the building one of the oldest nonconformist churches in Essex. Nonconformism was common in East […]

Cuckoos was the site of a freehold tenement dating back to at least the 16th century and probably earlier. The present house was built during […]

The Forge was the site of a village blacksmith from the middle of the 19th century until well into the 20th century. Around 1850, John […]

Graces was one of the manors of Little Baddow, dating back to the Norman conquest. It took its name from the le Gras family who […]

Little Baddow Hall was the manor hall of Little Baddow. The manor, originally known as Badwen, was held by the Saxon Lord, Lewin, at the […]

The Rodney was built around 1650 as a farmhouse and in the 18th century it was owned by the Hodge family. Thomas Hodge, born in […]