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Kelly's Directory - Essex 1906

ARDLEIGH, mentioned in ''Domesday Survey'' is a parish 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, archdeaconary of Colchester and St Albans diocese. The church of St Mary the Virgin, a fine structure of flint and freestone, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a fine embattled western tower containing a clock and 8 bells; the 6th bell, cast about 1450, by Brazien, of Norwich, bearing this inscription, ''Sum Rosa Puisals Mundi Maria Vocata;''over the porch is this inscription: Orate: p' animabus Johis Hue: at ye Wode et Alicie: uxuris ejus, Johis Hute: Willi: Hute:'' there is a memorial window to the Rev. Frederick Joseph Ball M.A. vicar 1897-1902; an organ was erected in 1905 at the cost pf £ 465; in 1883 the church was rebuilt and the tower and south porch restored, at a cost, including fittings and decoration, of £4,600, and in 1892 the bells rehung and a new bells added: there are 330 sittings. The register dates from the year 1555. The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £500 with 6 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1902 by the Rev. Reginald Hall Grubbe, B.A of Trinity College, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan Chapel. The cemetery here, formed in 1860, is one acres 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 rest for teaching poor boys of this parish at Dedham Grammar School. A fair is held on the 29th of September. New Hall is the residence of  James Arthur Josselyn esq. and Ardleigh Park, standing in its own grounds of about 100 acres, is the residence of Francis Harry Owen Wilson esq. There are four manor houses in this parish, viz,; Bovills Hall, the property of W.R. Newth esq.; Langham Hall , belonging to William Nocton esq, Ardleigh Hall the property of J. Fenn esq. and Birch Hall, owned by the Right Hon. James Round P.C. The principal landowners are Lord Lucas and Dingwall, Wiliam Nocton, John Fenn, Samuel Robert Blyth and Edward Catchpool esqrs., the Rev. Richard Cox-Hales, M.A. of 27 Cambridge Road, Brighton, William Herbert Dunnett, esq. of Stour House, Dedham and Rt. Hon. J. Round 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 5,058 acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £12, 448; population in 1901 was 1,426 in the civil and 1,214 in the ecclesiastical 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. These is also a Primitive Methodist Chapel. 

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 road from Colchester to Langham.

Post, M.O. & T.O., T.M.O., E. D., P. P., S. B, & A. & I. office.-James Waller, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by mail cart from Colchester at 7 a.m. & by train at 11.15 & 4.45; dispatched at 11.50a.m. & 3.35 p.m. by train, & 7.45 p.m. by mail cart; Sunday, arrive 7a.m. ; dispatched at 7.45 p.m.. Letters for Crockleford Heath come through Elmstead.

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

Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1875, for 250 chldren; average attendance 200; Thomas Rous, master; Mrs. Rous, mistress.

Railway Station, Arthur Booth, station master.

County Police, Ernest Ryder, constable

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