FAULKBOURN, a parish in the hundred of WITHAM, county of ESSEX, 2 miles (N. W.) from Witham, containing 168 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., and in the patrpnage of J. J. C. Bullock, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Germanus.