LATCHINGDON, a parish in the hundred of
DENGIE, county of ESSEX, 5 miles (N.W. by W.) from
Burnham, containing 414 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of
the Archbishop of Canterbury,*rated in the king's books
at £37. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. This
parish extends across the hundred of Dengie, from Latchington
creek and Blackwater river on the north, to the
navigable river Crouch, on the south.