. The New England historical and genealogical register . HIGH STREET, BRAINTREE :- > vTI Hit- - ~~~n ill. ST. MARYS CHURCH, BOOKING. 1902.] Our English Parent Towns. 271 OUR ENGLISH PARENT (with BOOKING) .* By Oscar Fay Adams, Esq., of Boston, Mass. Braintree and Boching, though separate parishes in Essex, formbut one town in everything but name and certain minor details oflocal interest. The twin parishes, known to the outside world asBraintree, are situated on rising ground beside the river Black-water, on the Braintree branch of the Great Eastern the west the
. The New England historical and genealogical register . HIGH STREET, BRAINTREE :- > vTI Hit- - ~~~n ill. ST. MARYS CHURCH, BOOKING. 1902.] Our English Parent Towns. 271 OUR ENGLISH PARENT (with BOOKING) .* By Oscar Fay Adams, Esq., of Boston, Mass. Braintree and Boching, though separate parishes in Essex, formbut one town in everything but name and certain minor details oflocal interest. The twin parishes, known to the outside world asBraintree, are situated on rising ground beside the river Black-water, on the Braintree branch of the Great Eastern the west the town may be reached via Bishop Stortford, onthe Cambridge line, or from the south via Witham Junction, on theColchester -division. Braintree, anciently known as Branchetreu,or Branktre, is conjectured to--have been successively a British anda Roman station, and in the time of King John it had become amarket town, and a halting place for the countless pilgrims on theirway to the shrine of Saint Edmund at Bury. When the terribleDuke of Alva was harrying the Netherlands, a number of refugeeFlemings settle
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