CHIGWELL, parish and residential district of Essex, Eng land, with stations (Chigwell Lane and Chigwell) on the L.N.E.R., 13m. N.E. of London. Pop. (1921) 2,943. The village, which fig ures in the Domesday survey, lies in a branch of the Roding valley, fragments of Hainault Forest lying to the south and east, border ing the village of Chigwell Row. The pleasant scenery of the neigh bourhood, which attracts large numbers of visitors and residents from London, is described in Dickens's novel, Barnaby Rudge, and the King's Head Inn, Dickens's "Maypole," still stands. The old grammar school was founded by Samuel Harsnett, archbishop of York (d. 1631), whose fine memorial brass is in St. Mary's church, a Perpendicular structure with a Norman south door.