DIRECTORY. ] ESSEX. CA.~EWDOY. 77
wheat, oats, beans and barley &c. Th~ area is 1,837 7 a.m. sundays & week days & dispatched at 6 p.m. acres; 1'ate3oble value. £1.617; the popula.tion in 1901 week days only. Postal orders issued, but not paid. was 2-1-8 in the civil and 308 in the ecclesiastical parish. Billericay is the nearest money order & telegraph office, distant 1~ miles Post Office.-Arthur BurreU, sub-postmaster. Letters Day School (mixed), built in 1891 for 66 children; average received from Brentwood through Billericay arrive at attendance, 50; Miss Eleanor Simmons, mistress
Davis Joseph, Botany Gate farm Butcher George, head gardener to Rt. Smith George, farmer, Ninges farm • .Tohnson Robert, The Hope house Johnson esq Suckling Frederick, farm ,bailiff to :Savile Hon. John Henry, Stockwell hall Harris William, farmer, Bullers farm Wm. Gibson esg. Botany hill Tl'rousdale Rev. William George B.A. Harris William, jun. farmer & assis- Wood John, farm bailiff to Philip Cole (rector), Rectory tant overseer, Sudbury's farm esq. St. Margaret's Aylott Job, farm bailiff to Edgar Pond Abraham, farmer, Carver's farm Jones esq
BUTTSBURY is a parish on the road from Chelms £340, with 2 acr~s of glebe, in the gi.ft of Lord Petre, ford to Billericay, 3 miles south-east from Ingatestone and held since 1886 by the Rev. Charles Earle B.A. of station, 3 north from Billericay and 5 south-west from St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, who resides at In. Chelmsford, in the Mid division of the county, Chelms gatestone. Lord Petre is lord of the manor and £hief ford hundred, petty sessional division, union and county landowner. The soil is loamy; subsoil, gravel. The -court district, rural deanery of Ingatestone, archdeaconry chief crops are Wheat, oats and barley. The area is of Essex and diocese of St. .Albans. The more populous 2,I03 acres of land and IQ of water; rateable value, part of the parish is adjacent to and' forms part of the .£"3,049; the population in 1901 was 532. village of Stock. The church of St. Mary is a small and Parish Clerk, Edward Wright. ancient building of brick and plaster, in the Perpendi Letters received through Ingatestone R.S.O. arrive at cular style, consisting of chancel and nave, south porch 7.30 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office and a western tower of brick containing one bell: the is at Stock -church formerly belonged to the nlillnery of St. Leonard, This place is contributory to the Great Burstead School at Stratford-le-Bow: there are 100 sittings. The re Board district, formed Jan. 29, 1873, sending 2 mem gister of baptisms dates from 1657; burials, 1668; mar bers to the board riages, 1694' The living is a perpetual caracy annexed 'fhe children of this parish attend the school at Stock, to the rectory of Ingatest rich meadows on its banks and the battlefield of Ash- of a Roman station. .At the time of the Domesdav• ingdon, where in 1016 it is said Canute the Great and Survey it belonged to Sweyne. Apton Hall, the residence Edmund Ironside contended; here is a Danish entrench- of Gcorge E. Hawkins esg. is situated in grounds of 427 Ulent. T?ere is a ferry from vVallasea across .the Crouch I acres: C. M. F~ll esq. is IOTd of one manor a,nd Fra.nk to DengIe hundred for horses and carnages. The Stalhbrass esq. IS lord of that of Scotts Hall. The 'prm ancient church of St. Nicholas, standing on Canewdon I cipal landowners are Frank Stallibras8 esg. Zachary Hill, is an edifice of stone of PerpendicU:ar date, con- i Pettitt esg. and George E. Hawkins esq. The soil is tSisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, separated from ~he clayey; subsoil, clay. The crops are general. The area nave by an arcade of four bays, south porch and masSIve I is 5,230 acres of land, 9 of water, 422 of tidal water and -embattled western tower 74 feet high and containing 5 r6{ of foreshore; rateable value, £3,673; the population bells: the church was repaired in r7II, when a figure in 1901 was 495. {)f St. Christopher was discovered on the riglit side of . , •. the entrance: outside the tower are the quartered W AL~.ASEA,. former~y an Is.an~ but now JOIned to ~rms of France and Eng-Iand and the shields of Bohun, the mamland, IS a penmsula, 3 mIles l~ng by about I~ Mowbray and 'Warren: ill the chancel (restored in 1894) broad, bounded on the nort~ by the rlver Crouch, on are sedilia, and there was a hagioscope in the north wall the s~u~h a:nd .east by the.Roche ,and by creeks o~ the Df the chancel arch: the pulpit is of finely-carved oak: west, It IS III the panshes of Gre.at St~~br:dge.' the church contains several mural tablets to members of Canew~on, Pag~esham, Eastwood. ~md LIttle ~ akerm~, ~the Kersteman family: in 190Z the interior was re-seated a publIc road m very bad condItIon crosses. the pen.tn wit,h chairs, and a new al'tar t,able, choir seats arId read- sula, an?- lead~ to Foulness Island. By ~he mtroduc.tIOu ing-desks of oak presented by Mrs. Little: two niches of artesIan ~e.ls of great depth water IS now obtamed and a piscina have been disclosed at the east end of the of good quality. north aisle: there are 300 sittings. The 1'egister dates RIXGWOOD is a. hamlet in Wallasea, 1 mile south- lirom ihe year 163'6. The living is a vicarage, net yearly east from Burnham by water. v';LIue £391, with 60 acres of glebe .and ::esidence, in the Parish Clerk, William Higby. g,ut of the Dean and Chapte.r of "estmlll~~e~, and held Post & M. O. O. S. R & Annu:i,t & Insurance OIDce.- ~lIlce 1900 by the Rev. Charles Robert ~ 11ham Hardy 0' y L . B A f 0 . 1 C 11 0 f d J H L'ttl . Samuel fford Moss, sub-postmaster. etters arnve ege X q .' . o. t ne f °th , 't to'~h' .. t~ etes £'6 IS from Rochford S.O. at 8 a. m. ; dispatched at 1 I,30 ·a.m. Impropna or 0 'e grea I". es, amoun mg 0 72 & d d' t h d n" ... Th .C t' a1 hIt d' 8 3·55 p.m.; sun ays, lspa c e Hardy Rev. Charles Robert William COM}IERCIAL. Buxton Jonathan, Anchor P.H . B.A. (vicar), Vicarage Amo~ Geo. Ferry Boat inn, Cricksea Guive; Henry, farmer, Wick farm Hawkins George E. Aptan hall AustIll Charles, shoe maker Hawkms Geo. E. farmer &; landowner, l'ettitt Zachary, Loftman's Bines Thomas, carpenter Apton hall