SHALFORD, a parish in the hundred of HINCKFORD,
county of ESSEX, 5 miles (N, N. W.) from Braintree,
containing 670 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary
of Essex and Herts, concurrently with the Consistorial
Court of the Bishop of London, rated in the king's
books at £7, and in the patronage of the Prebendary
of Shalford in the Cathedral Church of Wells. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew.