Hatfield Heath
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 Holy Trinity Church, Hatfield Heath |
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| Hatfield Heath shown within Essex | |
| Population | 1,930 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | TL523149 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Bishop's Stortford |
| Postcode district | CM22 |
| Dialling code | 01279 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
Hatfield Heath is a village, civil parish, and an electoral ward in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, and at its west is close to the border with Hertfordshire. In close proximity are the towns of Bishop's Stortford, Harlow and Chelmsford. Stansted Airport is approximately 5 miles (8 km) to the north.
The neighbouring Hatfield Broad Oak (HBO) was a market town which shrank to a large village. As it declined Hatfield Heath, then in the parish of HBO, grew because of its proximity to main roads through the parish. In 1660 the fair at HBO was moved to Hatfield Heath. By the third quarter of the 18th-century the heath (today's village green), had cottages around its edge, and by the 19th century two schools, a church and a brewery.
The 1870-72 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales entry for Hatfield Heath describes:
...a chapelry in Hatfield-Broad Oak parish, Essex; 1¾ mile SW of Hatfield-broad-Oak, and 2½ E of Sawbridgeworth r. station. It was constituted in 1860; and its post town is Hatfield-Broad-Oak, under Harlow. Pop., 622. Houses, 124. The manor belongs to George A. Lowndes, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £75.* Patron, the Vicar of Hatfield-Broad-Oak. The church was built in 1860; is in the early English style; and consists of nave and chancel, with tower and spire. There is an Independent chapel.
Hatfield Heath became after 1860 an ecclesiastical district formed out of but remaining part of HBO. The settlement was a hamlet, and one of two ecclesiastical chapelries of HBO, the other being Bush End. By 1901 Hatfield Heath, remaining an HBO ecclesiastical district and hamlet, had a population of 579. At the time both Hatfield Heath and Bush End were perpetual curracies together of a yearly value of £75, held under advowson of the vicar of HBO. The church supported three National Schools in the wider HBO parish, which also contained "several" private schools. The National School at Hatfield Heath was built in 1899 for 201 mixed children, which in 1902 had an average attendance of 66. An 1894 will of George Cheveley provided interest from a trust for Hatfield Heath National School children's education, and in 1905, the Cheveley Educational Foundation. An 1857-built day school in HBO provided non-religious teaching to 113 parish pupils; it became government funded in 1862, and in 1898, after rising and falling numbers, an infants room was added, and in 1929 it was amalgamated with Hatfield Heath National School.
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