Kelly's Directory - Essex 1865

 .......The church of St. Mary the Virgin consists of a nave, north and south aisles, and a very handsome tower. ........At Crockleford Heath, in this parish, is a school for boys and girls, supported by Lady Georgina Rebow.......

Ardleigh Crown is also a hamlet of Ardleigh on small brook falling into the Colne, and on the turnpike road from Colchester and Langham, 3 miles from Colchester.

Post Office - Mr. Benjamin Biggs, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from Colchester at 4.45 a.m.; dispatched at 8.05 p.m but letters cannot be posted after 8p.m. The nearest money order office is at Dedham. Letters for Crockleford Heath come through Elmstead.

Insurance Agents;-

• Royal Exchange Fire & Life, Fenn, Cook & Fenn, Ardleigh Hall

• Railway Station, Thomas Womack, station master.- Trains to London, Bury, Ipswich &c. at various times daily.

• School - Chyme Wood, Crockleheath, Miss Susann Candler, Mistress

• Parish Clerk, Joseph Southgate

Carriers to;-

• Dedham-W.J. Page, to the Railway station, daily, arrives at 9 a.m. & leaves at 10.30 a.m

• Manningtree, Harwich & Ipswich- Carriers for these places pass through here six times a week.

Private residents    

• Biggs Mrs.

• Bull, Mrs.

• Fenn George Green, The Rookery

• Fenn James, esq.

• Fenn John,. esq. Redberry farm

• Fenn John, Green, esq. Ardleigh Hall

• Nicholl Charrington, esq. Bovills Hall

• Paterson Capt. Augustus, New Hall

• Sparling, Mrs. Samuel Archer

• Todd Rev. James, Vicarage

Commercial

• Abbott Edward, farmer

• Abbott Edward, jun. seedsman & market Gardener

• Abrey Samuel, farmer

• Allen, John, Beer Retailer

• Austin, William, Farmer

• Baker Charles, farmer

• Bacon John, farmer

• Bacon Peter, Brickmaker

• Barber James, carpenter & wheelwright

• Barber James, Crown

• Bedford, Sarah Jane (Mrs), farmer & prep. school

• Biggs Benjamin, baker

• Biggs James, farmer

• Biggs James, jun. farmer

• Bloomfield William, farmer

• Bromley John, farmer

• Bromley Thomas, farmer, Mose Hall

• Buss William, boot & shoe maker

• Carrington Jonathan, farmer

• Catchpoole Thomas, farmer

• Cook Anthony, farmer

• Cooper Samuel, farmer, Lodge Farm

• Curtis Philip, farmer, Crockleford Hill

• Dunnagon, Thomas, farmer, Bromley Road

• Dymes, John, farmer

• Eagle John, farmer, Badley Hall

• Everett William, pig dealer & farmer

• Felgate William, farmer

• Fenn & Cook, & Fenn. auctioneers, estate agents & surveyors, Ardleigh Hall

• Fenn Geo. Green, farmer, Rookery farm

• Fenn James, farmer

• Fenn John, farmer, Redbury farm

• Fenn John, grocer

• Fitch, John, farmer Shaw's Farm

• Francis Isaac, farmer, Colyer's Wood

• Glamfield, John, Fox & Hounds & Wheelwright & Blacksmith

• Gosling George, Blacksmith

• Hawkins James, plumber & glazier

• James Samuel, Poulterer

• James William, brick maker & farmer

• Keable Robert, farmer

• Kerridge Shadrach, farmer, Hill farm

• Ladbrooke Elisha, blacksmith & wheelwright

• Lambert William, cattle dealer

• Long William, beer retailer

• Luen Eliza (Mrs.), King's Head, & collar & harness maker

• Lugar James. farmer, Martin's Hall

• Marchant Edward, thatcher

• Mulley George, shopkeeper & bricklayer

• Miller John, farmer & poulterer, Fountain farm

• Orriss Thomas, harness maker

• Osborne William, wheelwright

• Oxley William, carter

• Parker Thomas, farmer

• Potts George, grocer & draper

• Seaborn Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer

• Seaborne Nathaniel, drillman

• Sergeant William, blacksmith

• Simpson Edward, Railway Tavern & veterinary surgeon

• Smith George, blacksmith

• Smith John, farmer

• Smith Thomas, farmer, Park farm

• Southgate William, boot & shoemaker

• Vince James, farmer

• Wakelin Jonathan Stebbing, Miller

• Webb John, farmer, Bromley Road

• Went Elizabeth, (Mrs.) grocer & farmer

• White James, tailor

• Winckle Spring, Wheatsheaf, Bromley Road

• Woolf John (Mrs.), farmer

• Youngs James, beer retailer

 

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