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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 Harwich division of the county, Manningtree petty sessional division, Tendring Hundred and Union, Colchester , Clacton Harwich & Halstead joint county court district, rural deanery of Dedham, archdeaconary of Colchester and Chelmsford 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 of £ 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 7 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 rent to be expended for the instruction of poor boys of this parish at Dedham Grammar School. There were originally four manor houses in this parish, viz,; Bovills Hall, the property of Maj.-Gen. Charles Edward de Manley Norie C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.; Martell's Hall, the property of the Rev. James William Green M.A. and Ardleigh Hall, the property of the Messrs H and E. Edwards; J.W. Clayton esq. is the lord of the manor of Moze Hall. The principal landowners are the trustees of the late Lord Lucas and Dingwall (d. 1916), Messrs H and E. Edwards, Messrs E Abbott and sons. 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, £14, 496; population in 1921 was 1,420 in the civil and 1,250 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, & T.E.D.Office. Miss Annie Waller, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive by motor from Colchester. Letters for Crockleford Heath come through Elmstead.

Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, G. T. Simpson ; attendance fri, 12.0 - 12:30

Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), built in 1875, for 145 mixed & 52 infants ; Arthur P Stokes, master.

Railway Station, Arthur Booth, station master.

County Police, Ernest Charles Monk, constable

Carriers to:-

Omnibus run frequently to Colchester daily.

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