Kelly's Directory - Essex 1867

  Ardleigh mentioned in 'Domesday Survey,' is a parish and station on the Eastern Union Railway, in the Northern division of the county, Tendring Hundred and union, Colchester county court district and archdeanery, rural deanery of Ardleigh, and Rochester diocease, 4½ miles north from Colchester, 3½ south-east from Manningtree, 26 north-east from Chelmsford, 12½ south-west from Ipswich, 16 from Harwich steamboat station, 39 from Bury, and 55½ from London, on the road to Manningtree. The church of St. Mary the Virgin consists of a nave, north and south aisles, and a very handsome tower. The living is a discharged vicarage, tithe rent-charge £382, with 6 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. James Todd. Here is a chapel for Wesleyans. A fair is held on the 29th September. A farm called Ragmarsh was devised by William Littlebury, in 1571, for teaching poor boys in the parish. At Crockleford Heath, in this parish, is a school for boys and girls, supported by Lady Georgina Rebow. The area is 4,905 acres and the population in 1861 was 1,580.

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

Parish Clerk, H. Waller.

Post Office - Mr. Benjamin Biggs, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from Colchester at 4.45 a.m.; dispatched at 8 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Dedham. Letters for Crockleford Heath come through Elmstead.

Insurance Agents;-

• Provincial, J. Hawkins

• 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.

National School, George Dacre, master.

Carriers to;-

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

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

Private residents    

• Biggs Mrs.Fenn Cooper, Goodhall

• Fenn George Green, The Rookery

• Fenn James, esq.

• Fenn John, jun. esq. Redberry farm

• Fenn John, Green, esq. The Hall

• Nicholl Charrington, Bovills Hall

• Osborne John Forster esq., Ardleigh park

• Paterson Capt. Augustus, New Hall

• Todd Rev. James, Vicarage

Commercial

• Abbott Edward, farmer

• Abbott Edward, jun. seedsman & Florist

• Abrey Samuel, farmer

• Bacon John, farmer

• Baker Charles, farmer

• Barber Robert, carpenter & wheelwright

• Bare Ada (Miss), preparatory school

• Biggs Benjamin, baker

• Biggs James, farmer

• Biggs James, jun. butcher

• Bloomfield William, farmer

• Bromley John, farmer

• Bromley Thomas, farmer, Mose Hall

• Buss William, boot & shoe maker

• Carrington Jonathan, farmer

• Catchpoole Edward, farmer

• Catchpoole Thomas, farmer

• Clark William, Crown

• Cook Anthony, farmer

• Cooper Samuel, farmer, Lodge Farm

• Cox Ritcher Fryer, grocer & draper

• Curtis Philip, farmer, Crockleford Hill

• Darlin Joel , miller

• Downes John, Fox & Hounds, & Carpenter

• Eagle John, farmer, Badley Hall

• Everett William, pig dealer & farmer

• Felgate William, farmer

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

• Fenn Geo. Green, farmer, Rookery farm

• Fenn James, farmer

• Fenn John, farmer, Redbury farm

• Fenn John, grocer

• Francis George, Wheelwright

• Francis Isaac, farmer, Collier's Wood

• Hawkins James, plumber & glazier

• Herbert Walter Frederick, farmer

• Hicks Herbert, miller

• James Samuel, Poulterer

• James William, brick maker & farmer

• Kerridge Shadrach, farmer, Hill farm

• Ladbrooke Elisha, blacksmith & wheelwright

• Long William, beer retailer

• Luen Francis, King's Head, & collar & harness maker

• Lugar Charles Lucas, farmer

• Lugar James. farmer, Martell's Hall

• Marchant Edward, thatcher

• Miller John, farmer & poulterer, Fountain farm

• Mulley George, bricklayer

• Orriss Thomas, harness maker

• Osborne William, wheelwright

• Oxley William, carter

• Parker Thomas, farmer

• Payne Henry, farmer

• Philbrick George, Railway Tavern

• Seaborne Nathaniel, drillman

• Sergeant William, blacksmith

• Simpson Edward, veterinary surgeon

• Smith George, blacksmith

• Smith John, farmer

• Smith Thomas, farmer, Park farm

• Southgate William, boot & shoemaker

• Tracey James, beer retailer

• Vince James, farmer

• Vince John, farmer

• Waller Henry, carpenter

• Waller Frederick, grocer & wheelwright

• Webb John, farmer, Bromley Road

• White James, tailor

• Woolf Thomas & James, farmers

• Wyncoll Spring, Wheatsheaf, Bromley Road

• Youngs James, beer retailer

 

 

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