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Kelly's Directory - Essex 1899

Ardleigh mentioned in 'Domesday Survey,' is a parish situated on the road 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, Manningtree 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 embattled western tower containing a clock and 8 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' : in 1883 the church was rebuilt and the tower and south porch restored, at the cost, including fittings, furniture and decoration, was £4,600 and in 1892 the bells were rehung and 2 new bells added. The register dates from the year 1555. The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £239,  with 6 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and held since 1897 by the Rev. Frederick Joseph Ball M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The cemetery here, formed in 1860, is one acre in extent and under the control of the parish council. The endowed charities amount to £52.6s yearly. 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. New Hall is a residence of Mrs. Impey-Lovibond and Ardleigh Park, standing in its own grounds of about 100 acres, is the residence of Captain Algernon Garrett Scriven. William Nocton esq. of Langham Hall and Messrs. Newman and Harper are lords of the manor.  The Principal landowners are Lord Ashburton, Earl Cowper K.G., P.C . , Miss Cooper, William Nocton esq. John Fenn, Samuel Robert Blyth, Horace G Egerton esqrs, of Kingsford, Stanway and Edward Catchpool esqs,  the Rev. Richard Cox-Hales M.A of 27 Cambridge Road, Brighton, William Herbert Dunnat. esq. of Stour Hour, Dedham, Charrington Nicholl esq. and James Round esq. M.P.,of Birch Hall. The soil is generally light gravel; subsoil, mild sandy bottom. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 5,057 acres of Land and 5 of water; rateable value, £12,085 ; the population in 1891 was 1,538 in the civil and 1,322 in the ecclesinstical parish.

CROCKLEFORD, a part of Ardleigh, 2½ miles south-west, has a small Mission church, originally built for a school: services are held on Sundays at 3 p.m.

ARDLEIGH CROWN, is a part of Ardleigh lying to the west, and is 3½ miles from Colchester, on a small brook falling into the Colne and on the turnpike road from Colchester to Langham.

Post & M. O. & T. O. & T.M.O., Express delivery, Parcel Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office - Frederick George Biggs, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by mail cart from Colchester at 7 am., & by train at 11:15 & 4;45; dispatched at 12. & 3;35 p.m. by train & 7;45 p.m. by mail cart. Letters for Crockleford Heath come through Elmstead. 

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

National School (mixed) built 1875 for 250 children ; average attendance 200; Thomas Rous, master and Mrs. Rous, Mistress

Railway Station, Arthur Cockett, station master.

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