Stisted

infobox UK place

country = England
latitude=51.89172
longitude=0.61731
official_name= Stisted
population =
shire_district= Braintree
shire_county = Essex
region= East of England

constituency_westminster= Braintree
post_town= BRAINTREE
postcode_district= CM77
postcode_area=CM
dial_code= 01376
os_grid_reference= TL802247

Stisted is a civil parish, Church of England parish, and former manor near Braintree, Essex, England. Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, was raised there.

History of Stisted

Stisted parish was a peculiar, held by the Dean of Bocking under the Archbishop of Canterbury, until 1845, when it fell under the jurisdiction of Middlesex. It 1895 it became part of the see of Chelmsford.

Charles Forster, grandfather of E. M. Forster, held the living of Stisted, and there is an inscription recording that " [http://www.stisted.info/church_xtra.htm The tower was rebuilt from the foundations by Onley Savill-Onley and at the same time the chancel was new roofed and restored by the Rev Charles Forster AD 1844] ".

The manor of Stisted also belonged to the monks of Canterbury Cathedral before the reformation. It was
* sold to Thomas Wiseman in 1549, whose heirs sold it
* to William Lingwood in 1685,
* whose widow (his third wife) beqeathed it to John Savill in 1719.
* It was inherited by Savill's brother,
* and then his niece, who married the Rev. Charles Onley
* from whom Onley Savill-Onley was descended

In 2003, Alan Hurst, the local Member of Parliament denounced an Internet land scheme for selling land in Stisted as if for development, comparing it to a Champagne auction. [http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030404/debtext/30404-19.htm]

External links

* [http://www.stisted.info Webpage of All Saints, Stisted] ;
* [http://www.essexlife.net/?magazineId=206 Stisted chimney pots]