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Kelly's Directory - Essex 1890

 Ardleigh mentioned in 'Domesday Survey,' is a parish situated on the roaf from Colchester to Manningtree, with a station on the main line of the Great Eastern Railway, 5 miles north-east from Colchester, 3½ south-west from Manningtree, and 55½ from London, 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.The church of St. Mary the Virgin, a fine structure of flint and freestone, consists of chancel, nave and aisles, south porch restored 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 , is this inscription: 'Orate : p' animabus Johis Hute: Willi: Hute' :The chancel, nave and aisles were rebuilt and the tower and south porch restored, in 1883; entire cost, including fittings, furniture and decoration, was £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. The Wesleyans have a chapel. The endowed charities amount to £52.6s yearly. A farm called Ragmarsh farm  was devised by William Littlebury, in 1571, the rent for teaching poor boys in the parish at Dedham grammar school.  A fair is held on the 29th September. Lord Ashburton and Messrs. Newman and Harper are lords of the manor. The Principal landowners are Lord Ashburton, and Earl Cowper K.G., P.C John Fenn, Samuel Robert Blyth and Henry Egerton Green of Kingsford, Stanway , Edward Catchpool esqs, Durrant E Cardinall esqrs. the Rev. Richard Cox-Hales M.A of 18 Montpellier villas, Brighton, William Herbert Dunnat. esq. of Stour Hour, Dedham, Charrington Nicholl esq. and James Round esq. M.P., D.L., J.P.  The soil is generally light gravel; subsoil, mild sandy bottom. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 5,062 acres; rateable value, £10,984 ; 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 & M. O. & T. O. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office - Frederick George 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

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Railway Station, William Thomas Womack, station master.

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