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Kelly's Directory - Essex 1886

 Ardleigh mentioned in 'Domesday Survey,' is a parish and station on the Great Eastern Railway, in the North-Eastern division of the county, Lexden & Winstree petty sessional division, Tendring Hundred and union, Colchester county court district, rural deanery of Ardleigh, archdeanery of Colchester and St Albans diocese, 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, south porch and a fine western embattled tower containing 6 bells; the sixth bell cast about 1450, by Brazian, of Norwich, bearing this inscription, 'Sum Rosa Pulsata Mundi Maria Vocata'; over the porch, a fine structure of flint and freestone, is this inscription: 'Orate : p' animabus Johis Hute: at ye Wode et Alicie: uxoris ejus, Johis Hute: Willi: Hute' : the chancel, nave and aisles are about to be rebuilt and the tower and south porch restored, at an estimated cost of £4,600. The register dates from the year 1555. The living is a discharged vicarage, tithe rent-charge £382 14s, 8d., with 6 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and held since 1872 by the Rev. Thomas Walter Perry, hon, cannon of St Albans. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners as owners of the great tithes amounting to £1,370 18s 8d. grant £120 yearly as curate's stipend, until the intended increase of the endowment. . There is a cemetery of one acre in extent formed in 1860 and under control of a burial board of nine members. A farm called Ragmarsh was devised by William Littlebury, in 1571, for teaching poor boys in the parish at Dedham grammar school. Here is a chapel for Wesleyans. A fair is held on the 29th September.  The endowed charities amount to £33 yearly. Lord Ashburton and Messrs. Newman and Harper are lords of the manor. The Principal landowners are Lord Ashburton, and Earl Cowper, John Fenn, John Hudson Cooper, Samuel Robert Blyth and Henry Egerton Green , Edward Catchpool esqs and the Rev. Richard Cox-Hales M.A rector of Woodmancote, Sussex. The soil is generally light gravel; subsoil, mild sandy bottom. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 5,057 acres; rateable value, £9,442 ; the population in 1881 was 1,594.

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 & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank -  Benjamin Biggs, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from Colchester at 4.10 a.m & 12.23 p.m.; dispatched at 12.23 p.m & 8 p.m. Letters for Crockleford Heath come through Elmstead. 

Register of Births, Deaths & Marriages, James Mayer, attendance fridays 12.30 p.m to 1 p.m

Schools - 

Cemetery, David Mustard, Manningtree, Clerk to burial board, 

Railway Station, William Thomas Womack, station master.

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