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Kelly's Directory - Essex 1878
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 St Albans diocease, 5 miles north-east from Colchester, 3½ south-west from Manningtree, and 55½ from London, on the road from Colchester to Manningtree. The church of St. Mary the Virgin consists of chancel, , nave, aisles and handsome south porch, with a very fine tower containing 6 bells. The register dates from the year 1555. The living is a discharged vicarage, tithe rent-charge £433, with 6 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. Thomas Walter Perry. The great tithes (which became the property of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1866), are held on a lease of lives, by Mrs. Webb, and amount to £1,440. 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 this 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, John Fenn, John Hudson Cooper, Samuel Robert Blyth and Egerton Green, esqrs., and the Dowager Countess Cowper. The endowed charities amount to £26 yearly. The soil is generally light gravel; subsoil, mild sandy bottom. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 4,906 acres; rateable value, £10,148 12s; the population in 1871 was 1,519.
Ardleigh Crown is a part of Ardleigh to the west,, 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 & Money Orders Office & Savings Bank - Benjamin Biggs, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from Colchester at 4.10 a.m & 12.30 p.m.; dispatched at 2 p.m & 8 p.m. Letters for Crockleford Heath come through Elmstead.
Insurance Agent - Sovereign Life, E Abbott, jun.
Burial Board, David Mustard, Clerk
National School, Charles Homer Snelgar, master; Mrs. Elizabeth Phoebe Snelgar, mistress.
Railway Station, Wm. 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- John Thomas Wilson passes through here once a week.
Private residents
Abrey Samuel
Fenn Cooper, Goodhall
Fenn George Green, The Rookery
Fenn John, Ardleigh Hall
James William
Nicholl Charrington, Bovills Hall
Osborne John Forster, Ardleigh park
Perry Rev. Thomas Walter, Vicarage
Robarts James Geo. Harben, New Hall
Trevor Mrs. The Rectory
Turner Rev. John [assistant curate]
Commercial
Abbott Edward, seedsman & Florist
Abbott Joseph, saddler
Baker Charles Robert, farmer
Barber Robert, carpenter & wheelwright
Biggs Benjamin, baker
Biggs James Bell, farmer & butcher
Bird William, grocer & draper
Blyth Robert, farmer
Bradbrooke John, farmer
Bradley James, Red Lion
Bromley Harry, miller
Bromley John, farmer
Bromley Matthias, farmer, Plains farm
Bromley Thomas, farmer, Mose Hall
Buss William, boot & shoe maker
Carrington John, farmer
Cooper Daniel, farmer, Badley Hall
Cooper John Hudson, landowner & farmer, Bounds farm
Curtis Philip, farmer, Crockleford Hill
Dorlin Charles, Miller
Downes Jhn, Fox & Hounds, & Carpenter
Eagle Herbert Jas., farer, Bradliss Hall
Everett Henry, farmer
Fenn & Co. auctioneers, estate agents & surveyors, Ardleigh Hall
Fenn Cooper, farmer, Good Hall
Fenn Geo. Green, farmer, Rookery farm
Fenn James, builder
Fenn John, grocer
Francis George, Wheelwright
Green Wm. farmer, Bloomfield's farm
Harding Edwin, farmer
Hawkins James, plumber & glazier
Hazell Wm. farmer, Guide Post farm
Heighoe William, beer retailer
Keeble Robert, Crown
Lister Thos. farmer, Broomhanging farm
Luen Francis John, King's Head
Lugar Jas Marshall, frmr. Martell's Hall
Marchant Henry, thatcher
Miller John, farmer , Fountain farm
Moore Harry, Railway Tavern
Moy Thos. coal mer. Ardleigh station
Osborn Jhn, wheelwright, Ardleigh crown
Osborne Mrs. Jane, farmer
Page Alfred, farmer
Pitchell Charles, boot maker
Radmore Thomas, farmer
Robinson Thomas, miller, Ardleigh mill
Rouse William, beer retailer
Seaborn Edward, miller
Seaborne Nathaniel, drillman
Simson George, veterinary surgeon
Skeet William, farmer
Smith George, blacksmith, Ardleigh Crown
Smith George John, blacksmith
Smith John, farmer
Smith Thomas, farmer, Park farm
Southgate William, boot & shoemaker
Thompson Thomas, miller
Vince James, farmer
Vince John, farmer
Wade Henry, farmer
Waller Frederick, grocer & wheelwright, Ardleigh Heath
Waller Henry, carpenter
Webb Benjamin, shoe maker
Webb John, farmer, Crockleford
White Mark, beer retailer
Wilkinson Thomas, grocer & draper
Woolf James, farmer
Wyncoll Spring, Wheatsheaf, Bromley Road