GESTINGTHORPE, a parish in the hundred of
HINCKFORD, county of ESSEX, 3 miles (N.E.) from
Castle-Hedingham, containing 694 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, within the jurisdiction
of the Commissary of Essex and Herts, concurrently
with the Bishop of London, rated in the king's boolcs
at £7, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty: there is also a sinecure rectory,
rated at £13. 6. 8. J. T. H. Elwes, Esq. was patron in
1804. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.