BRAUGHING HUNDRED 



tributed : . 



of 5,. 



yearly, the income to be di: 

 to poor widows. 



In 1825 William Murvell by his will gave £300, 

 the dividends arising therefrom to be applied in the 

 upkeep of testator's monument and the residue, 

 together with the interest on £100, in the relief of 

 five poor women of sixty years and upwards. These 

 two sums were invested in consols, and arc now 

 represented by .£499 1 2/. 8/ India 3 per cent, stock, 

 producing £14 i^-W. 7W$r. , , . 



The same testator gave £666 I p. \a. consols, the 

 interest arising therefrom to be applied in the relief 

 of six poor men of sixty years and upwards. This 

 stock is now represented by £660 13/. \Qd. India 

 3 per cent, stock, producing £19 16/. 4,/. yearly. 

 In 1907 £ 2 2 >- was s P enI on [ he monument and 

 Ao 51. \ad. was distributed among six men and five 

 women. 



The Parish Clerk's Charity.— Four acres of land 

 in Wainges Field, Ware, have been appropriated from 

 time immemorial to the use of the parish clerk, being 

 the gift of a donor unknown. The land is let for 

 £13 yearly, which sum is paid to the parish clerk. 



WESTMILL 



The Nursing Fund.— Frederick Harrison above 

 mentioned likewise bequeaihed £200, the interest 

 arising therefrom to be applied in aid of the Ware 

 Parish Church Nursing Fund. The endowment is 

 now represented by £2131 5*. $4. India 3 ), per cent 

 stock, producing £7 9.1. 8i/. yearly in dividends. 



In 1857 Charles Brunton, by his will proved in 

 P.C.C. 9 May, bequeathed £100, the interest to be 

 divided equally between and amongst all widows of 

 the Upland division of Ware annually on I January. 

 The legacy was invested in£i09 17;. \od. 3 percent. 



like : 



of 1 



isok 



£2 14/. 8,/. yearly. 



The several sums of stock above mei 

 held by the official trustees. 



The Old Independent Chapel endowm 

 of two houses in New Road, Ware, known as 

 Cambridge Villa and Hope Villa, which are stated 

 to have been purchased with bequests of Diminsde'l 

 in 1759, Hannah Tew in 1838 and Mrs. Flack. 

 The houses produce £50 yearly, and of this £37 is 

 paid to the minister and the remainder is applied in 

 the upkeep of the houses. 



WESTMILL 



Westmele, Westmel (xi and xii ci 

 melne, 1 Westmill, Westmelle (xiii ce 

 mylne, Westmulle (xiv cent.). 



Westmill including Wakeley (which 

 an extra-parochial liberty of Aspende- 

 was added to Westmill by Local Cover 

 Order in 1883) is a parish of 2,663 acn 

 which about three-quarters at a rough 



-S formerly 

 (q.v.) and 

 lent Board 

 of land, of 

 timation are 



arable. The River Rib runs through the parish and 

 forms for a little way its eastern boundary, but the 

 land for the most part lies high and the extent of 

 meadow land has always been small ; at the time of 

 the Domesday Survey there was enough for six 

 plough-teams only. The commons were inclosed by 

 an award of 1819 under an Act of 181 3- 1 " High 

 Field, Hunsdon, Albury and Mill Field were among 

 the common fields. 2 The chief patch of woodland in 

 the parish is formed by Coles and Knights Hill with 

 Millcroft on the east. Part of Hamells Park also lies 

 in this parish on the south, but the house is in the 

 parish of Braughing. The Bunungford branch of 

 the Great Eastern railway has a station in the 

 village. 



Westmill is intersected on the east by Ermine 

 Street. In 13th-century deeds this road is alluded 

 to as Erningstrat, Hern igst rate, the mediaeval forms 

 of Ermine Street, and also as Stanstrate. 3 In 1729 

 two Roman amphorae were found in Lemonfield 

 (Lemannsfeld, xiv cent.). 



It is not possible now to locate the mill from which 

 the parish took its name. There were three mills in 



1086, but there are now none surviving within the 

 bounds of the parish. Millcroft Wood and Upper and 

 Lower Mill Field must, however, have taken their name 

 from a mill in their neighbourhood. 4 Among the 

 early place-names in the parish were Burgeys, Aldburg, 

 Adthelingo, Staph;, n ManncfelJ, 6 Mannemad, 7 Tun- 

 mannemade B and Tounhallefeld. 5 Of these the only 

 one that seems to survive is Auldburv or Albury, the 

 name of a field (formerly a common field) to the 

 north-west of Millcroft Wood, near the river. Other 

 names frequently occurring in I Jth-century deeds 

 are Admundeslane, Rogeneyehe'eld or Ru\ 

 Lindlev, Dedemannesot, Pandulveswelle, 

 med, 10 Purtewellchul, Sudpurtewelle, 

 called Albertisgrave. None of these names seem to 

 survive. 1Ua Lands called Hammondes in I 521 " were 

 er a family of Hamond, whose name 

 ally in wills, deeds, inquisitions, &c, of 

 '1 and 17th centuries. 12 This family 

 Westmill since the beginning of the 



:nhofeld, 

 , Pekeswelle- 



named ; 



IStfl, 

 died 01 



Another local family who have left 

 a field called after them are the 

 Chiperiields, who can be treed back 

 itury. 14 John Chiperfield, by will of 

 athed ioj. to building a 'church house' 

 :hyard. 15 Among the place-names still 

 surviving in the parish are Great and Little R'dgcway 

 Field to the south of the road leading to Westmill 

 Green, Norwich Grove and Close to the north-east 

 of Coles, Allen's Mead near Westmill Lodge, and 

 Church Field to the north of the church. 10 



19th century. 1 - 

 their name ir 

 Chiperevlles or 

 to the 13th c 

 1507, beqm 



e Shot. 



lay be a 



1 forn 



'1 Will, P.C.C. zi Mavnwaryng. 



la Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 206, no. 50 ; 

 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), D 1074; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (Ser. 2), eccexxviii, no; P.C.C. 

 34 Bodfdde; 3 Logge. 



13 Information from Mr. T. T. Greg. 



" See Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 11S5. 



'* P.C.C. 23 Adeane. 



10 Information from Mr. T. T. Greg. 



