HANNINGFIELD (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of CHELMSFORD, county of ESSEX, 6 miles (S. S. W.) from Danbury, containing 176 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, consolidated, in 1785, with that of West Hanningfield, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £10. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.