HORNDON-on-the-HILL, a parish in the hundred
of BARSTABLE, county of ESSEX, 16 miles (S. by w.)
from Chelmsford, containing 420 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books
at £14. 6. 8., endowed with £235 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean
and Chapter of St. Paul's, London. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter. Here was formerly a market on
Saturday. A fair for wool is held on the 29th of June.