Walton Hall, Essex

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Walton Hall, Essex

Roman Villa

The farmhouse of Walton Hall seems to date back to the Tudor times but there is evidence that the 16th Century building just replaced a building from the 13th Century.

In 1341 John de Walton was a plaintiff in an Essex fine which names the manor of Walton, did he give his name to the manor? Or did he take his name from the manor as done in medieval times?
But what we do know for sure is that the land the house is on has been occupied from around 50 AD. Crop marks and studies by archaeologists suggest that an outer building of a Roman villa lay beneath the house of Walton Hall.

The main barn is 17th Century and the stables are of mid 18th Century and most likely started out as buildings for farm animals but by the mid 19th Century were being used by the Kennel Club to house the hounds for the hunt by Alfred or Abraham Causton in 1857, the landlord of the farm was at this time Arthur Button (COX) of Mucking Hall.

Soon after this time the stables were used to house farm workers; a stable lad used one and an elderly couple and their daughter used another.

In 1851 the farm was run by Abraham Causton (the spelling of the surname changes on different documents). Abraham employed 20 labourers at the farm.
Abraham was married to Sarah Causton until 1861 she passed away, this ended the Causton stay at Walton Hall. That year William Grey moved into the farm with his wife Maria but by 1871 they had also moved on to make way for the Clark family. William and his wife Emily raised a young family at the farm, one son Percy and two daughters Uranium and Margaret.

It has been hard trying to trace residents prior to 1851 at Walton Hall as the land was often used as a extension to the Turners farm and vice versa.

Map of 1873

In 1851 we also have a family living either at the farm in some of the outbuildings or as lodgers at the house, these were George Watkinson and his wife Jane. George was 43 and a farmer out of business; he seems to have come to the farm due to his connection with his brother-in-law Frederick Causton.

When you look into the history of the land where Walton Hall is its connection to the Romans cannot be over looked.
The amount of Roman finds over the years in the Mucking area has been quite staggering but we also must be aware of the prehistoric settlements that are also dotted all over the same area.

You would be hard pushed to find another location like Mucking that still bears the scars of all the people that once called it home.

But more recently it seems some on these people may have not left Walton Hall at all.
A figure has been seen walking the fields behind the farm and disappearing in front of your eyes. Is this also the same figure that has been seen walking across the main barn at Walton Hall and placing a knife into the wall and disappearing in the same way?
Who is the young lad seen sitting in the art room? What is making the workers in the bakery feel uneasy? and what exactly is going on in the nursery?