HANNINGFIELD (WEST), a parish in the hundred
of CHELMSFORD, county of ESSEX, 6 miles (S. W.)
from Danbury, containing 468 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, with which the rectory of South Hanningfieldwas
consolidated in 1785, in the archdeaconry of
Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's
books at £16. 13.- 4., and in the patronage of Thomas
Lowden, .Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary
and St.. Edward. The inhabitants are supplied with
water from a public well four hundred and sixty-two
feet deep.