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Richard Dootson esq. Messrs. Withers and the trustees office is at Stanford-le-Hope. Postal orders are issued of Norwich Hospital. The soil is heavy loam; subsoil, here, but not paid clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans and clover. The A School Board of 5 members was formed 25 April, 1874 area is 1,387 acres of land and 40 of water; rateable C. C. Lewis, Brentwood, clerk to the board & at. Talue, £1,904; the population in 189 I was 292. tendance officer Post Office. John West, sub-postmaster. Letters from Stanford-le-Hope S.O. arrive at 10 a.m.; dispatched Board School (mixed), built in 1885, for 120 children; at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office & telegraph average attendance, 98; :Miss Elsie Reynolds, mistress Bell George Bailey Francis, Barge inn Moss Alfred John, barge owner & Curtis Robert L. Rectory Cox James, grocer & builder farmer, Vange wharf & Hill farm Gash Rev. Richard Henry ~LA. Heywood William, grocer Stocks Charles, draper & prov. dlr Rectory Hockley Samuel, farmer, Vange hall Vange Brick Fields (Robert L. Curtis, COMMERCIAL. Lacey George, builder proprietor) Bull John, farmer & landowner, Mansfield William, blacksmith West John. shopkeeper, Post office Mountfitchet Rains George, chimney sweeper Wood James, FiYe Bells P.H VIRLEY (or Salcott Virley) is a parish separated from £r71, with 72 acres of glebe, in the gift of Edward Cox. Salcott by a creek 7 miles south-east from Kelvedon well esq. and Sir William Neville Abdy hart. the Rev. station on the main line of the Great Eastern railway, Frederick Watson M.A. and ·w. Hall esq. alternately, and 8 south-south-west from Colchester, in the North and held since 1878 by the Rev. Edward Musselwhite. Eastern division of the county, Winstree hundred, Lex- Abdy's charity of £4 is for bread and clothing. Sir den and Winstree petty ses-sional division and union, William N eville Abdy bart. is lord of the manor and the Colchester county court district, rural deanery of Mer- principal landowner. The soil is heavy; subsoil, the sea, archdeaconry of Colchester and diocese of St. Albans. same. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The The church of St. Mary the Virgin, a small and ancient area is 6,547 acres; rateable value, £324; the popula­ building of flint and rubble, in the Early English style, tion in 1891 was 75· eonsisting of chancel and nave, is now ruinous and dis- Parish Clerk, John BoJey. used, and the inhabitants attend the church at Salcott. Letters delivered from Kelvedon arrive at 9.30 a.m. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1628; Nearest receiving house at Salcott, & the nearest money burials, r633 ; marriages, 1732. The living is a rectory, order & telegraph office is at Tolleshunt D' .A.rcy. annexed to Salcott in 1879, average tithe rent-charge The children of this village go to the Salcott school · Bright Thomas, blacksmith /1\Iead William, White Hart P.H. & coal merchant Musselwhite Rev. Edward, Rectory GREAT WAKERING is an ancient parish lying and there are also Salvation Army Barracks. Alien near the coast and the :Maplin Sand, 2~ miles north Stallibrass, of Eastwood Bury, Edward Arthur '\Vedd, from station on the Tilbury and Southend Philip Benton and A. M. Haines esqrs. are the princi· railway, 6 south-east from and 5 north-east pal landowners. The soil is heavy loam; subsoil, clay. from Southend, and in the South Eastern division of The crops are general. The area is 2,784 acres of the county, Rochford hundred, petty sessional division land and 3,153 of water; rateable value, £6,785 ; the and union, Southend county court district and in the population in r8gr was 1,652 including that portion in rural deanery of Canewdon, archdeaconry of Essex and Hushley and Great Potton Islands belonging to Great diocese of St. Albans. The church of St. Nicholas is ·wakering parish. a building of stone, principally Norman with Perpen- dicular additions: it consists of chancel, nave, north Post, M. 0., T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity aisle, south porch and a western tower with shingled & Insurance Office. Waiter Henry Chipperfield, post- spire containing 5 bells, cast in 18o8, the tenor bell master. Letters arrive from Southend at 7 & ID.30 weighing 8 cwt. : there are traces of mural paintings a.m. ; dispatched at 10·45 a.m. 4 & 6 p.m.; sunday m the navP : the font is said to be Norman. The regi- delivery, 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 4 p.m ster dates from the year 1604. The living is a vicarage, A School Board af 7 members was formed 30 Sept. average tithe rent-charge £ 172, net yearly value £ 146, I88g, for the united district of Great and Little with 2 acres of g!ebe and residence, in the gift of the lrakering, Barling & North Shoebury; George Wood, Bishop of St. Albans and held since r872 by the Rev. Rochford, clerk to the board; Benjamin Reynolds, Henry Malim B.A. of St. John's College, Oxford. The Great Wakering, attendance officer Congregational chapel, erected in r8go at a cost of Board School (mixed), built in 1876, & enluged in £r,wo, affords 300 sittings. The Primitive Methodist r885 & again in r88g, for 6oo clrildren, two cla.ss ehapel, built in r85g, will seat 200 persons. The rooms are now (r894) being enlarged for 40 more Peculiar People, a sect which originated in this village, children; average attendance, 410; Edward Charles have a chapel built in 1893 and holding 200 persons, Lay, master; Miss Pennington, infants' mistress Nalim Rev. Henry B.A. Vicarage Convalescent Home for Women (R. Oliver James, farmer, Trotter's farm Rape-r William Augustus M.D Fruer, sec.), Friend's farm Oliver William, butcher :Robertson Rev. Wm. (Congregational) Cooper George, watch & clock maker Potton Charles, boot maker Wedd Edward Arthur J.P. Whitehall Dennis Thomas, tailor Raper William .A.ugustus M.D. phy- Fenn James, White Hart inn sician & registrar of births & deaths COMMERCIAL. Fitch Edward James, Red Lion P.H & medical officer & public vacci- Alp George, blacksmith Ford Sarah Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper nator for Wakering district, Roch· .Andrew James Warren, farm bailiff French William, market gardener ford union Archer Samuel Rogers, grocer Frost Rebecca (Mrs.), baker Raynes Thomas, farmer, Landwick Arno-ld John, farmer; winters to Jas. Gilbey l\Iaria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Rutter D. & C. brick makers (Henry Spear Vellacott esq. Oldbury Goodman Jas. saddler & harness ma Juniper, manager) Aylett Alfred, grocer Green Alfred, grocer, pork butcher Saward William, baker & corn dealer Bailey Thomas, builder & china. & glass dealer Simpson George, Exhibition inn Baynard James, farmer, Wick farm Grigg William, shopkeeper Stowe Charles, fishmonger Hennewith Henry, wheelwright Hart Thos. Joseph, Bell inn Stratford Stephen John, shopkeeper :Brown Edward, blacksmith Heigho George, Anchor inn Tassell Charles, grocer & draper Buckingham William, butcher Howard J oh'n, barge owner Taylor J essie (Mrs.), boot & shoe ma Burgess George, bricklayer Howard J oseph, shopkeeper Tillbrook George, shopkeeper Burgess John, baker Hudson Thomas, farmer, Great Pot- Vintress George, builder Buxton Willi.am, grocer & china & ton farm Web_b George W. grocer glass dealer Mansfield William, shoe maker Webb John, butcher Catmull Hcrbert, cowkeeper Milbourn James, farmer, Oxlam Wiggins William Thomas, builder 0hipperfield Waiter Henry, grocer & Mimpress George, master mariner Wood Golden, shoe maker drapPr, Post office Older William, greengrocer Worskett Frederick William, grocer Collin James, draper Oliver Herbert, shopkpr. & hairdressr & pork butcher LITTLE WAKERING, adjacent to Great Wakering Island are in this parisli. The church of St. Mary is and equally ancient, is a parish in the South Eastern a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, con­ divisian of the county, Rochford hundred, union and iiisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western petty sessional division, Southend county court distri~t. tower with shingled spire, containing 3 ancient but un­ and in the rural deanery of Canewdon, archdeaconry dated bells: in 1878 the chancel was restored and the of Essex and diocese of St. Albans. LITTLE POTTON floor raised and re-laid: a Norman window discovered and NEW ENGLAND ISLANDS and a part of 1\'allasea during the restoration has been carefully preserved: