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

 

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