BROOMFIELD, a parish in the hundred of CHELMSFORD,
county of ESSEX, 2 miles (N.) from Chelmsford,
containing 624 inhabitants.. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese
of London, rated in the king's books at £7. 13. 4., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in. the patronage of the Bishop of London;
The church is dedicated to St. Mary.