MAPLESTEAD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred
of HINCKFORD, county of ESSEX, 2 miles (N. by W.)
from Halstead, containing 428 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and
diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £8.3. 4.
J. Judd, Esq. was patron in 1797. The church, dedicated
to St. Giles, has a chapel attached to the south
side, belonging to the proprietor of Dynes hall, and containing
two costly monuments of the family of Deane,
its former possessors.