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Kelly's Directory - Essex 1912
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 , Clacton and Harwich joint county court district, rural deanery of Dedham, 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 1420 is inscribed, ''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, including 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. There were originally four manor houses in this parish, viz,; Bovills Hall, the property of W.R. Newth esq.; Mose Hall owned by the Right Hon. James Round P.C. Martell's Hall property of Mr. Acton Philips and Ardleigh Hall, the property of the trustees of the late J. Fenn esq.The principal landowners are Lord Lucas and Dingwall and the trustees of the late John Fenn esq.,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, £13, 473; 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.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. (July - Septemver) & 12.5 (October to June) & 3.35 p.m. by train, & 8.10 p.m. by mail cart; Sunday, arrive 7a.m. ; dispatched at 7.45 p.m.. Letters for Crockleford Heath come through Elmstead.
Pillar Box at Station, cleared 10.40 a.m. & 3.20 & 10.45 p.m. ; sundays 10.45 p.m
Pillar Box, Harwich Road, cleared 8a.m. & 8.15p.m. ; sundays, 8.15 p.m.
Pillar Box, Bromley Road, cleared at 8 p.m. ; no Sunday collection
Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, James Mayer; attendance fridays, 12.30 to 1 p.m
Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), built in 1875, for 145 mixed & 52 infants ; average attendance 125 mixed & 45 infants; Thomas Rous, master; Mrs. S Rous, infants mistress.
Railway Station, Arthur Booth, station master.
County Police, Ernest Ryder, constable
Carriers to:-
Dedham - Page, to the Railway Station, daily, arriving at 9 a.m. & leaving at 10 a.m.
Colchester - Bantick, mon, thurs & sat. leaving at 1.30 p.m. Mon & Sat & 10 a.m. thurs
Private Residents
Back, Mrs. Good Hall
Ball Mrs. Frederick, Ardleigh Court
Bennett Col, Alfred Charles D.S.O. Ardleigh Park
Dennis William Gentry, Hill Farm, Crockleford
Fenn, Mrs. Charlton Lodge
Fenn Mrs. John, Ardleigh Hall
Garside Joseph Old Shields
Garside Samuel Arthur, Cherry Tree lodge, Crockleford
Grubbe Rev. Reginald Hall, B.A. (Vicar), Vicarage
Josselyn James Arthur, New Hall
Mayor Mrs. Bovills Hall
Newth Walter Raymond, Bovills Hall
Philips Acton, sen. Martells
Southgate Alfred Percy, Holmesdale
Stephens William James, Monica House
Wilson, Francis Harry Owen, Wolfdene
Winter Rev. Charles Bertram Lee B.A. (curate)
Commercial
Abbotts E & sons, nurseyman, seedsman, florists & bulb merchants, Railway & Burnt Heath nurseries & Home farm & Hollies farm, Great Bromley
Abbott Sarah Jane (Mrs.) farmer, Vince Farm
Abbott, Walter, butcher
Andrews William, builder
Bacon, Charles , farmer , Shaw's Farm
Bacon Frederick, carter
Baker Charles, Robert. (exors. of) farmers Hungerdowne farm
Bantick Walter, arrier & coal dealer
Bibby Ernest, Railway Tavern
Bird John, farmer, Good Hall Farm
Blyth, James, farmer, Gate House Farm
Blyth Samuel Robert, farmer & landowner, Ardleigh Wick
Bree Sidney M.B. Lond. physician & surgeon (calls mon. wed. & fri.), Surgery
Bruce William, wheelwright (Francis & Bruce)
Carter Ernest E Red Lion P.H.
Cemetery (Edwin Womack, Colchester, clerk)
Church William, baker
Clark Wm. Beer retailer, Ipswich Road
Clover William, miller (water)
Creak John Bromley, farmer, Whaley Farm
Dennis Walter, farmer, Mose Hall
Denny Thomas, beer retailer
Downing Robert, baker
Driver Sidney, photographer, Ardleigh Heath
Earls William, farmer, Vale View Farm
Edwards H. & E. fruit & vegetable merchants Rookery Farm
Everett Henry, farmer, Harvey's farm
Farthing Miss, dressmaker
Fenn & Co. auctioneers, estate agents & surveyors, Ardleigh Hall; & at Colchester
Fenn Eliza & Fanny (Misses), shopkeepers
Fenner William, Henry, hair dresser
Fitch Elijah, blacksmith, Ipswich Road
Francis & Bruce, wheelwrights
Garside Arthur Wm., farmer, Colliers wood
Gosling Robert, boot and Shoe repairer
Green John, Fox & Hounds F.H.
Hadley John, farmer, Ipswich Road
Hare George, farmer, Holly Hill farm
Harvey Arthur, grocer & draper
Hazell Thurza (Miss), farmer, Guidepost farm
Hazell Wiliam, farmer, Hull farm
Jaggard Nathan Driver, farmer
Joslin George Driver, farmer
Keeble Robert, Crown P.H. & farmer
Latta Matthew B.farmer, Redbury Farm
Lownds ames Richard B.A., L.R.C.P. & SEdin. & L.R.F.P. & S.Glas. physician & surgeon (calls tues, thurs & sat.), Surgery
Motuum Arthur, saddler
Moy Thomas Limited, coal merchants, Ardleigh station
Newth Memorial Hall & Institute (E.H. Merchant, hon, sec.)
Norfolk George, farmer & butcher
Oliver Martin, boot & shoe maker
Page Alfred, farmer, Lodge farm
Page Alfred jun , farmer, Hall farm
Parmenter Albert Charles, farmer, Brick House Farm
Paterson John, farmer, Blue barn
Pentney Charles, builder
Philips Acton, jun, farmer, Chancery farm
Pitchell Charles, boot maker
Pryke Arthur Charles, farmer, Plains Farm, Ipswich Road
Purkiss Arthur, farmer, Park farm
Richardson Robert, farmer, Badley Hall & Bounds Farm
Salmon William J, farmer, Park Farm
Seaborn Firmin, farmer, Fountain farm
Seaborn Harry, farmer
Silverbrook Arth. J, farmer, Maltings Farm
Simons Hy. insurance agent, Burnt Heath
Simson George, veterinary surgeon, Denton villa
Skeet Henry Edgar, farmer, Park Frm
Smith David, blacksmith
Southgate Ernest, farmer
Totman William, Wheatsheaf P.H., Bromley Road
Turner Arthur, King's Head, P.H.
Thurton Edmund Jas. grocer & draper
Waller F & son, wheelwrights, Ardleigh heath
Waller Elizh (Mrs.), grocer, Ardleigh Heath
Waller George, parish clerk
Waller James, carpenter, Post Office
Ward Ernest William, beer retailer, Burnet Heath
Wendon Maurice, farmer
Whistlecraft Herman, God's House Farm
Woodburn Mary J (Miss), farmer, Blomfield's farm
Wyncoll William, Willow tree farm
Young George, market gardener, Burnt Heath