Brewers End


Brewers End is situated on the Ordnance Survey Landranger map number 167 at 560 210.

The village used to be known as
"Takeley all on one side"
because the main road was the southern limit of the parish,so officially only houses on the northern side of the road were in Takeley. The houses on the south side were in the parishes of Great Canfield, Hatfield Broad Oak and Great Hallingbury.

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If you want to find information on people who lived in Brewers End you have to look at the records for Takeley parish and Hatfield Broad Oak parish.

The village also consists of Smith's Green, Bamber's Green and Mole Hill Green, three miles to the north. Another "Green" was Bonnington's at Brewers End, the site of Hawthorn Close. Brewers End means Briars End like Bush End means the end of the bushes or Forest.

The main road, the A120, is the Roman Stane Street, joining the ancient Roman forts of Colchester and Saint Albans.

The Church of Holy Trinity has a 12th century nave and a 15th century tower. There is also St Valery's Priory, a fine moated manor house just beyond Smith's Green, now called Warish Hall.

                   

Looking down Brewer's End

  
This is a picture looking East down the A120 taken from before the Recreation hall was built in 1904.

This is how it looks now with the Recreation Hall, which is part of our school, and the stable block which is our workshop and science lab. Our science lab used to be a billiard room! and the workshop a stables!
                   
This is an old postcard picture looking the other way.

The History of Takeley Village as Represented on the Parish Insignia

The ivy leaf and border stand for Roman connections and Roman god Bacchus. Ivy is also a good luck plant which protects the council and people from misfourtune.

The cross of St George is the English flag and emblem. In the English Civil War of the 17th Century it was the Parliamentary flag. Takeley supported the Parliamentary army.

The swords on the County Badge of Essex represent our Saxon connections, Saxon meaning sword.

The Ash Trees represent the centre of the Parish, The Four Ashes pub. Takeley also means settlement next-to open forest.

                   

 

• Brewers End • Chapel History • What was going on in 1808 and 1904? • The Smithy and Vicarage • Brewers End West •
• Brewers End East • The Silver Jubilee Hall •