LAWFORD, a parish in the hundred of TENDRING,
county of ESSEX, 1 mile (W.) from Manningtree, containing
688 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London, rated
in the king's books at £ 15, and in the patronage of the
Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has recently received
an addition of one hundred and sixty sittings, of which,
one hundred and ten are free, the Incorporated Society
for the enlargement of churches having contributed
£ 100. In 1723, John Leach bequeathed a rent-charge of
£22.4., for teaching ten poor children, and clothing ten
poor persons not receiving parochial relief. The navigable
river Stour runs on the south of this parish.