Chigwell

Chigwell, a village of Essex, on the border of Hainault Forest, 13 miles NE. of London. Its 'Maypole Inn' is familiar to readers of Barnaby Rudge; and it has a grammar-school, founded by Samuel Harsnet, Archbishop of York, in 1629, and improved and enlarged since 1871 at a cost of £10,000. Penn was a pupil. Pop. of parish (1861) 2676; (1891) 6324.