RUNWELL, a parish in the hundred of CHELMSFORD, county of ESSEX, 5 miles (N. W.) from Rayleigh, containing 307 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £13, and in the patronage of Vicesimus Knox, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The Crouch river is navigable from the sea to this place.