BELCHAMP (WALTER), a parish in the hundred
of HINCKFORD, county of ESSEX, 3 miles (W.) from
Sudbury, containing 608 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, consolidated with that of Buhner,
in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London,
rated in the king's books at £6, and endowed
with £100 and £6 per annum private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary.