Kelly's Directory - Essex 1871

 Ardleigh mentioned in 'Domesday Survey,' is a parish and station on the Eastern Union Railway, in the Eastern division of the county, Tendring Hundred and union, Colchester county court district, rural deanery of Ardleigh, archdeanery of Colchester and Rochester diocease, 5 miles north from Colchester, 3½ south-west from Manningtree, 12½ south-west from Ipswich, 16 from Harwich steamboat station, and 55½ from London, on the road to Manningtree. The church of St. Mary the Virgin consists of a chancel, nave and aisles, with a very handsome tower containing 6 bells. The register dates from the year 1555. 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. At Crockleford Heath, in this parish, is a school for boys and girls, supported by Lady Georgina Rebow. A farm called Ragmarsh was devised by William Littlebury, in 1571, for teaching poor boys in the parish. Here is a chapel for Wesleyans. A fair is held on the 29th September. Lord Ashburton and Edward Reeve, esq. are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Lord Ashburton, The soil is generally light gravel; subsoil, mild sandy bottom. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 4,905 acres; and the population in 1861 was 1,580; and gross estimated rental £10,310; rateable value, £9,046.

Ardleigh Crown is a part of Ardleigh, on a small brook falling into the Colne, and on the turnpike road from Colchester and Langham, 3½ miles from Colchester.

Parish Clerk, H. Waller.

Post Office - 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.

National School, Charles Atkins, master; Mrs. Emily Atkins, mistress.

Railway Station, Thomas Womack, station 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 three times a week.

Private residents    

• Beales Mrs. Emma

• Fenn George Green, The Rookery

• Fenn James

• Fenn John, jun. esq. Ardleigh Hall

• Fenn John, Green, esq. Redberry farm

• Nicholl Charrington, Bovills Hall

• Osborne John Forster, Ardleigh park

• Phillips Rev. George William

• Robarts James Geo. Harben, New Hall

• Todd Rev. James, Vicarage

Commercial

• Abbott Edward, farmer

• Abbott Edward, jun. seedsman & Florist

• Abrey Samuel, farmer

• Bacon Elizabeth Mary (Mrs.), Red Lion

• Bacon George, seed farmer

• Bacon John, farmer

• Baker Charles Robert, farmer

• Barber Robert, carpenter & wheelwright

• Barker Samuel, beer retailer

• Biggs Benjamin, baker

• Biggs James, farmer

• Biggs James, jun. butcher

• Bloomfield William, farmer

• Bromley John, farmer

• Bromley Matthias, farmer, Mose Hall

• Buss William, boot & shoe maker

• Carrington Jonathan, farmer

• Catchpoole Edward, farmer

• Catchpoole Thomas, farmer

• Clark William, Crown

• Clarkson Charles, miller

• Cooper John Hudson, landowner & farmer, Bounds farm

• Cooper Samuel, landowner & farmer, Lodge Farm

• Cox Ritcher Fryer, grocer & draper

• Curtis Philip, farmer, Crockleford Hill

• Daniels William, brick maker

• Dorlin Joel , miller

• Downes John, Fox & Hounds, & Carpenter

• Eagle Albert James, farmer, Bradliss Hall

• Eagle John, farmer, Badley Hall

• Everett William, farmer

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

• Fenn Geo. Green, farmer, Rookery farm

• Fenn James, builder

• Fenn James, farmer

• Fenn John, farmer, Ardleigh Hall

• Fenn John, grocer

• Finch Samuel, beer retailer

• Francis George, Wheelwright

• Frostick James, grocer

• Green William, farmer, Bloomfield's frm

• Hawkins James, plumber & glazier

• Herbert Wm. Fox, landowner & farmer

• Hicks Herbert, miller

• James Samuel, Poulterer

• James William, brick maker & farmer

• Kerridge Shadrach, cattle dealer

• Kistrick Arthur, beer retailer

• Lilley James, beer retailer

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

• Lugar James Marshall. farmer, Martell's Hall

• Marchant Edward, thatcher

• Miller John, farmer & poulterer, Fountain farm

• Orriss William, harness maker

• Osborne William, wheelwright

• Parker Thomas, farmer

• Payne Henry, farmer

• Seaborne Nathaniel, drillman

• Simpson George, veterinary surgeon

• Smith George, blacksmith

• Smith John, blacksmith

• Smith John, farmer

• Smith Thomas, farmer, Park farm

• Southgate William, boot & shoemaker

• Steel Charles, painter

• Vince James, farmer

• Vince John, farmer

• Waller Frederick, grocer & wheelwright

• Waller Henry, carpenter

• Ware John, beer retailer

• Webb Benjamin, shoe maker

• Webb John, farmer, Crockleford

• White John, tailor

• Woolf James, farmer

• Woolf Thomas, beer retailer

• Wyncoll Spring, Wheatsheaf, Bromley Road

• Youngs James, beer retailer

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