KELVEDON, a town of the hundred of Whitham, in
Kemaon. the county of Essex, on the great road to Colchester and Ipswich, forty miles from London. It stands on the river Pant, in a very fertile district, and consists chiefly of one long and well-built street, with several good inns. The population amounted in 1801 to 994, in 1811 to 1186, in 1821 to 1328, and in 1831 to 1463.