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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 -
National (mixed) built 1875 for 250 children ; average attendance, 148; John Turner Campbell, master ; Mrs. Mary Campbell, mistress
Cemetery, David Mustard, Manningtree, Clerk to burial board,
Railway Station, William 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
Colchester - Bantick, mondays, thursdays & saturdays leaving at 1.30 pm
Private residents
Arden, George Pinckard, New Hall
Clowes Richard, Ardleigh Park
Fenn Cooper, Goodhall
Fenn George Green, The Rookery
Fenn John, Ardleigh Hall
Griffiths Rev, Alfred [curate], Rose Tree Cottage
Kindred John, Monica house
Nicholl Charrington, Bovills Hall
Perry Rev. Thomas Walter, [hon. cannon of St Albans], Vicarage
Webb, John Smith, Cherrytree, Crockleford
Commercial
Abbott Edward, nurseyman, seedsman & Florist
Abbott Joseph, saddler
Archer James, farmer, Crockleford
Arnold Charles, beer retailer
Baker Chas. Rt, frmr. Hungerdown frm.
Barber Robert, carpenter & wheelwright, Ardleigh Heath
Biggs Benjamin, baker
Biggs James Bell, farmer & butcher
Bird William, grocer
Blyth Samuel Rt, farmer & land owner Ardleigh Wick
Bradley James, Red Lion P.H.
Bromley (Mrs.) & farmer, Mose hall
Buen, James , laundry
Buss William, boot & shoe maker
Chamberlain Joseph, farm bailiff to Wm. H. Dunnett esq., Gods House farm.
Clover, William, miller (wind)
Cooper Daniel, farmer, Badley Hall
Cooper John Hudson, landowner & farmer, Bounds farm
Cross Henry, Railway Tavern
Curtis Arthur, farmer, Plains farm, Ipswich Road.
Curtis Philip, farmer & brick maker, Crockleford Hill
Downes Jn, Fox & Hounds, P.H.& Carpenter
Everett Henry, farmer, Sand Pit Farm
Everett, Samuel - pork butcher, Ipswich Road
Farthng, Miss, dressmaker
Fenn & Co. auctioneers, estate agents & surveyors, Ardleigh Hall & at Colchester
Fenn Cooper, farmer, Good Hall
Fenn Geo. Green, farmer, Rookery farm
Fenn John, grocer & builder
Fenner Walter William, farmer, Blue Barn Farm
Francis George, Wheelwright
Gough Thomas Henry, grocer & poultry dealer
Green William, thresher, Collier's wood farm
Hall James, jun. farmer & poultery dealer
Hawkins James Emanuel, plumber & glazier
Hazell William. farmer, Guide Post farm
Hobrough Henry Sizer, bricklayer. Crockleford
Hodley William, beer retailer, Ipswich Road
Jolly Willam, beer retailer, Ipswich Road
Kebble Joseph , laundry
Keeble Robert, Crown P.H.& farmer
Lambert Robert, laundry, Crockleford
Leeks, Henry, beer retailer
Lester Thomas. farmer, Broomhanging farm, Crockleford
Lugar Jas. Marshall, frmr, Martell's Hall
Mark William John, blacksmith
Moy Thos. coal mer. Ardleigh station
Osborn Jn, wheelwright, Ardleigh crown
Osborne Jane (Mrs.), farmer
Page Alfred, frmr. Lodging & Malting farm
Parker Thomas, farmer, Munsons Farm
Pettican George, farm bailiff to Mr Lindsay Brown
Pitchell Charles, boot maker
Pryke, Sl, Kings Head P.H., & Wheelwright
Quinney George, beer retailer, Ipswich Road
Radmore Thomas, farmer, Hill House & Brickhouse farms
Robinson Thomas, miller and corn, coal & hop &c. merchant & frmr. Phoenix mill
Seaborn Edward, miller & farmer, Burnt Heath mill
Seaborn Firmin, farmer, Fountain Farm
Seaborne Nathaniel, drillman, Whaley farm
Simson George, veterinary surgeon, Denton Villa
Skeet Edgar, farmer, Harvey's farm
Smith Chas. Hugh, frmr, Redbury farm
Smith, David, blacksmith
Smith Frederick jun. frmr. Whaley Farm
Smith John George, blacksmith
Smith John, farmer, Slough Farm
Smith Thomas, farmer, Park farm
Southernwood William, farm bailiff to Edward Catchpool esq. Gate House
Southgate William, boot & shoemaker
Steel Charles, plumber
Stopes & Bintley, malsters
Vince James, farmer
Vince John sen., farmer
Waller Frederick, grocer & wheelwright, Ardleigh Heath
Waller Henry, carpenter & shopkeeper
Webb Benjamin, shoe maker
Woolf James, farmer
Wyncoll Mark, Wheatsheaf P.H.& Shopkeeper, Bromley Road