STAPLEFORD (ABBOT'S), a parish in the hundred
of ONGAR, county of ESSEX, 5 miles (S. E. by S.)
from Epping, containing 458 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese
of London, rated in the king's books at £16. 15., and
in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. There is a school-house, endowed
with three old cottages and £25 a year, in which forty
boys are instructed.