7 50ti 8 f. OSYTH. E~SEX. r (K}LLY S ' Butcher John, gardener Hnmphrey William, clothier & draper I Row land Thomas, sand mer. Wellwick Cemetery (Edward Salmon, clerk t<. Johnson Institute (Frank Norman, Sadd Harry, beer retailer, Flag inn burial board; Mrs. Constable, hon. sec) Salmon Alfred, farmer registrar) Kingsford .Arthur Wm. refreshment Salmon Edward, assistant overseer • Clampion Ephraim,aparts.HillSide ho rooms, Malting home clerk to Parish Council & bnrial brd Clark & Brown, grocers Langlands Charles, baker Scourfield Nathaniel Rowland,farmer, Cole George, farm bailiff to Mr Last John, bricklayer wood (postal address, William Rampling Learmonth James, farmer, Wick farm Weeley, ) Cole Morris, carrier Lewis Hemy, boot maker Shephard Alfred Ernest, beer re- Cole Robert, house agent, The Hut Lord Felix, farmer, College farm tailer, The Heath (postal address, Weeley) Mitchell Horace Edward Franci.s, Simmit George, baker Cole Robert, jun. wheelwright farmer, Cook's farm, The Heath Simpson John, farm bailiff to Edwin Cross Frederick William, farmer, Hill Murphy Peter, head gardener to A. Gilders esq. Lodge farm house & Wigborough Wick farm Cowley esq Smith Joseph, farmer, Lee wick Dale Alfred, farmer, Warren farm Neave Lionel Dig by B. A., M.R.C.S. 1 Smith Philip, baker Davis Harold W. farmer, St. Clere''l Eng., L.R.C.P .Lond. physi~ian & Smith Philip, farmer, Duchess farm Hall farm surgeon, & medical officer & public Smoothy Albert, builder Eagle John Woodruffe, farmer,Cocket vaccinator to St. Osyth district, Smoothy Charles, Ship P.H Wick & Lambs farm Tendring union, Hazeldene Tofts George Bertram, farmer,Hartley Edwards John,farmer, Earls Hall frm Norman & Gardiner, builders Wood farm, The Heath Gardiner William Henry, seedsman Norman Arthur, butcher Tydeman Henry, blacksmith Gentry Harry, cycle agent Parish Joseph, seed grower & farmer, I Vincent Edward Hubert, estate agen~ German Betsie (Mrs.), shopkeeper Brazier's & Wyers Hall farms to Mrs. Cowley, Estate office Gilders Edwin J. farmer, Lodge & Partridge Alfred, farmer, The Heath Vincent Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Dolt's farms (postal address, Weeley, Essex) Wailer Brothers, grocers & drapers Graham George, carpenter Ferryman Arthur, shopkeeper, Mill st Warner William, carter Hamby Jane Ann (Miss), shopkeeper Fowell Wm. Charles, farmer, Gray's Webb George, farmer, Welches farm Henson Samuel, hair dresser land (postal address, Weeley,Essex) West Samuel Ltd. sand merchants Holland Benjamin, frmr. The Heath Rampling Wm. jobmaster & farmer jYoung ffenry, boot maker Humphrey Charles, saddler Roberts Fdk. C. farmer, Ampers wick. SALCOT (or Salcot Wigborough) is a village ano 1879 to the rectory of Virley or Salcott Virley, joint parish, on the Salcot Creek, which is navigable, 7 miles net yearly value £t46, in the gift of Capt. Sir .A.nthony south-east from Kelvedon railway station on the main C. S . .1bdy bart. and others, and held since 1907 by the line of the Great Eastern railway, r! from Tolleshunt Rev. Felix Eustace Crate, who resides at Virley. Salco' D'Arcy light railway, u east from Witham, 9 north-east appertains to the adjoining manors of Tolleshunt D'.Arcy, from Maldon, and 8! south-south-west from , Abbot's Hall and Barn Hall. The land is held by small in the North Eastern division of the county, Winstree owners. The soil is heavy; subsoil, loam. The chief hundr£:d, Lexden and Winstree petty sessional division crops are wheat, beans and oats. The area is 274 scree and union, Colchester county court district, and in the of land, of which a part is salt marsh, and 14 of fore­ rural deanery of Witham, archdeaconry of Colchester and shore; rateable value, £376; the population in 19U Chelmsford diocese. The church of St. Mary, situated was 187 in the and 255 in the ecclesiastical near the creek which divides this place from Virley, parish. is a building of stone in the Early English style, con­ sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled Post Office. Nathaniel Handley, sub-postmaster. Let4 western tower containing one bell: the church was ters through Witham arrive at 7·35 a.m.; dispatched restored in r893, at a cost of about £r,4oo, and has sit- at 7·45 a.m. & 5·55 p.m.; no sunday delivery. The tings for 150 persons A devise of land, the rent of nearest money order & tel-egraph office is at Tolleshunil which amounts to £5 yearly, was made many years ago D'Arcy, 2 miles distant for the expense of the church. The register of bap- Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 186-], for 70 tisms dates from the year 1813; marriages, 1837; and children; average attendance, 45; Miss Clara Borne, burials, r8r3. The living is a perpetual curacy, unitedin mistress Foakes Harry, shopkeeper Ponder J ames, pork butcher COMMERCIAL. Handley Nathaniel, shopkpr. Post off Smith Arthur Brett, farmer Beecham Jn. Edwd. Rising Sun P.H Palmar William, pork butcher Thorogood Thomas, shopkeeper GREAT SALING is a parish and ancient village silver, without date or inscription: there are 230 sit., nicely wooded, near the Pods Brook stream, 3l miles tings. The register dates from the year I7I5- The north-west from Rayne station on the Bishop Stortford, living is a discharged vicarage, united to that of Little Dunmow and Braintree branch of the Great Eastern rail· Saling, joint net yearly value {.193, with 8f acres of way, 6 miles north-west from Braintree, 7 north-east glebe and resid·ence, in the gift of the Bishop of Chelms­ from Dunmow and 43 from London; in the Eastern ford, and held since 1902 by the Rev. Henry Elrington. division of the county, Hinckfor·d hundred, South Hinck- The rent of I&. 2r. I4P· bequeathed at an early period, ford petty sessional division, Braintree union and county is distributed annually to the poor in fuel and clothing. court district, rural deanery of Braintree, archdeaconry In .1726 John Smith left an annuity of £1 to be dis­ of Colchester and Chelmsford diocese. The Pods brook tributed quarterly in bread. The Hall, now (1914) forms part of the eastern boundary of the parish. The unoccupi.ed, is a fine Elizabethan mansion of brick, in church of St. James is a building of flint and stone, con- an excellent state of preservation. V. de S. Fowke sisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a esq. who is lord of the manor, the trustees of Guy's small Early English tower, with embattled parapet, origi- Hospital and Josepb Smith esq. J.P. of Woolpits, are nally detached from the church, a11.d containing a clock, the principal landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, erected in 1722, and 2 bells, one of which is dated 1623: gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and the chancel is Perpendicular and the nave Decorated: on oats and some land in pasture. The area is 1,599 acres; the north side of the chancel is a small chapel, now used rateable value, {.1,5IO; the population in rgn was 264 as an organ chamber: in the vestry is a monument to in the civil pa.rish and 5<~4 in the ecclesiastical parish, Bartlet Bridger Shedden, dated 1782, and others; in the t which includes Bardfield Saling. north wall of the nave is a doorway, now blocked up, I and in the sonth wall. near the entrance, a stoup for By Local Government Board Order 22,340, dated holy water: during r857 and r864 the chancel, originally March, 24, 1888, Boarded Barn Farm was transferred of the Early English period, was entirely rebuilt in the I from Great Saling to Little Saling in Dunmow union. Perpendicular style. the nave being at the. same time Sexton, George Dawson. restored, the church re-seated, two gallenes removed . . . and the arch in the- lower part of the tower enlarg-ed: Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Sahng.-~Ilham Walter.Dew, the east window added in 1 866 is a memorial to Mrs. sub-postmaster. Letters are received from Bramtree Fowke, widow of w, Fowke esq:: the chancel arch was at 6.10 a.m. & 12 noon; delivered immediately; dis- rebuilt and enlarg--?d by the late Capt. Harrison in _patched at 2.50 & 7·5 p.m. ; sundays, 7·5 p.m 1ss3, and an excellent organ was given by Capt. and Pillar Letter Box, Blake End, cleared at 3 & 7.15 p.m.; Mrs. Harrison in the same vear: there are memorial sun days, 7· 15 p.m windows, placed in 1875 to Capt. Thomas Thorpe Fowke Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with mistress's R.N. and Margaretta his wife, to the Rev. T. W. Ebring- house, in r872, & enlarged in r8g3, for 76 children; ton, vicar here r856-93, and to Mrs. Fenwick, 1888: average attendance, 43; Mrs. Frank Olark, mistress the church possesses an ancient chalice of hammered