BUMPSTEAD (STEEPLE), a parish in the hundred
of HINCKFORD, county of ESSEX, 8 miles (N.W.by N.)
from Castle-Hedingham, containing 961 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex,
and diocese of London, rated in the king's books
at £ 15. 2. 1,, and in the patronage of the Crown. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. Ann Cole, in 1730,
gave a small endowment for teaching and apprenticing
children.