DIRECTORY.J . TENDRL~G. 335 TENDRING is a very ancient parish, giving name to Tendring Union. a petty sessional division, hundred and union, and is on Board day, alternate wednesdays at the Workhouse the Holland brook, 2 miles north from W eeley station on at II a.m. the Tendring hundred branch of the Great Eastern rail­ way, 10l south-west from Harwich, 7 west from Walton The Union comprises the following parishes :-Alresford,. steamboat pier and 61 from London, in the North-Eastern Ardleigh, Beanmont-cnm-Mose, Bradfield, Brightling­ division of the county, Harwich county court district, sea, Dovercourt, Elmst~ad, ., Frinton, Grea-h and in the __rural deanery of St. Osyth, archdeaconry of Bentley, Great , Great Clacton, Great Holland.. and diocese of St. Albans. The church of St. Great Oakley, Kirby-le-Soken, Lawford, Little Bent­ Edmund, standing on an eminence overlooking the brook, ley, , Little Clacton, Little Holland, Little­ • is a building of rubble stone, principally in the Tran­ Oakley, , Mistley, Ramsey, St. Nicholas,. sition style from Early English to Decorated, and consists ~arwich, St. Osyth, Tendring, Thorpe-le-Soken, Thor­ of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, north porch, mgton, Walton-on-the-Naze, Weeley, Wix & Wrabness. organ chamber and an embattled western tower with The population of the union in 1891 was 37,403; area, pinnacles and spire, and contajning 4 bells : the tower 84,491 acres; rateable value in 1893, £189,175 was erected by the late John Cardinall esq. in 1876: Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, A. J. there is memorial window to the Rev. John Mitchell H. Ward, Harwich a • Chapman, rector here from 1838, d. 1878, and several Treasurer, G. C. E. Egerton esq. Colchester others: in the chancel is a kneeling figure of alabaster, Relieving & Vaccination Officers & Collectors to the­ witli brass inscription, to Edmund Saunders, ob. 15th Guardians, No. I district (Ardleigh), James Mayer,. November, 1615: on the south side of the chancel is a Great Bromley; No. 2 district (Harwich), Thomas piscina.: this church, prior to 1663, was an appendage to Young, Ramsey; No. 3 district (Thorpe), Theophilus the ancient manor of Old Hall; it then became the pro­ Philemon Ruffell, Thorpe perty of the Bowes family of Brett's Hall, and afterwards passed to Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford (1674-5) and Medical Officers, Nos. I & 2 districts, Samuel Evans of London ( I675-1713), who settled it upon Balliol College, L.R.C.P.Lond. Harwich; Nos. 3 & 4 districts, W. W. Oxford. The register of baptisms dates from 1538; Baxter F.R.C.S.Eng. Manningtree; No. 5 district (Ard­ burials, 1552 ; marriages, I553· The living is a rectory, leigh & Great Bromley), Sidney Arthur Mugford average tithe rent-charge £640, net yearly value £630, L.R.C.P.Lond. Manningtree; No. 5 (Elmstead) district,. with residence and 108 acres of gl~be, in the gift of Edward Herbert Squire, Wivenhoe; No. 6 district,. Balliol College, Oxford, and held since 1886 by the Rev. Robert Chapman Atthill L.R.C.P.Edin. Great Bentley; Arnold Henry Page M.A. of that college. The Wesleyan No. 7 dist. James J. Potter M.B., C.M. St. Osyth; No chapel, a large _and handsome building, has 250 sittings. 8 dist. Arthur Somers Ivens L.R.C.P.Edin. 'fhorpe; A fair was formerly held here on September qth, but is No. 8a district, Waiter Maine, Clacton-on-Sea; No. 9 now obsolete. The manor house, the property of Durrant & II districts, Francis Wheldale Foster, Thorpe; No. Edward Cardinall esq. J.P. of 18 Cromwell road, Brighton, 10 district, Sidney Arthur Mugford L.R.C.P.Lond. is a handsome mansion, with well-wooded pleasure Manningtree; No. 12 district, Charles Arthur Squire grounds, is the residence of Walter Horatio May esq. Ling, Brightlingsea Durrant Edward Cardinall esq. of Brighton, who Public Vaccinators, Nos. 7 & Sa, Robert Chapman Atthill is lord of the manor, and the Earl of Onslow L.R.C.P.Edin. Great Bentley; other districts, same as G.C.M.G. are the chief landowners. The soil is partly medical officers clay and partly of a light mixed nature, and the subsoil Superintendent Registrar, A. J. H. Ward, Harwich; is strong, with some gravel. Th_(_l chief crops are wheat, deputy, T. P. Bedford, Harwich- oats, barley, peas, beans and turnips. The area IS Registrars of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Ardleigh sub- 2,768 acre_s; rateable value, £3,480; the population in district, James Mayer, Great Bentley; deputy, William 1891 was 830, of which 215 were in the union house. Robinson, Frating; Harwich sub-district, Josiah Parish Clerk, George Laitt. Frederick Kerry, 22 Maria street, Harwich; deputy, E. Post Office.-Mrs. Mary Ann Mash, sub-postmistress. F. Durrant, 21 Market street, Harwich; Manningtree Letters arrive from Colchester at 6.35 a. m. & 12 noon; sub-district (births & deaths only), Thomas Young, dispatched at 6.25 p.m. & on sunday at 10.25 a.m. Ramsey; deputy, George Lucas, Ramsey; Thorpe sub-. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at district, T. P. Ruffell, Thorpe; deputy, W. C. Bare­ Weeley. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid ham, Little Clacton Wall Letter Box, The Green, cleared at 7·45 a.m. & 5.40 Registrars of Marriages, Brightlingsea sub-district, Wm. p.m. week days only Folkard, Brightlingsea; deputy, William W. Folkard,. County Magistrates for the Tendring Petty Sessional Brightlingsea ; Manningtree sub-district, Henry Mead,. Mistley; deputy~ S. T. Taylor, Mistley Division. Workhouse, built in 1838, at a cost of £12,ooo, is capable Norman Rev. Charles Frederick M.A. }ifistley Place, of containing 308 inmates & 12 vagrants; Richard Manningtree, chairman Parnaby Lackey, master; Rev. Thomas Henry Cook. Johnson Sir John Hel!ry, St. Osyth priory, Colchester chaplain; Francis Wheldale Foster, medical officer ; Blanshard Richard esq. F.R.G.S., M.A. Walton Mrs. S. J. Lackey, matron; Miss Rena Smith Lackey. Davis Colonel Richard Percival, New House farm, matron's assistant; Miss Totman Laborn, schoolmis­ Walton-on-Naze tress; Miss Agnes Craft, nurse ; Hy. Pamment, porter Durrant Edward Cardinall esq. 18 Cromwell rd. Brighton Egerton-Green Claude Egerton esq. Wyvenhoe hall, Rural Sanitary Auth~rity. Colchester Meets at the Workhouse, Tendring, on wednesdays, Hempson Annis esq. Hill house, Ramsey, Harwich monthly, at 1.30 p.m. Impey-Lovibond Colonel Archibald D.L. New hall, Ard­ Clerk, A. J. H. Ward, Harwich leigh, Colchester Treasurer, Augustus Robert Clench, 7 Streatham hill. Morrell Lieut.-Col. Edward, Mistley hall, Mannino-tree London S.W Nichols Francis Morgan esq. F.S.A. Lawford hall~ Man· Medical Officer of Health, John Will Cook M.D. Colchester ningtree Sanitary inspector, R. T. Stewart, Thorpe Norman Edwd. Kensit esq. D.L. Mistley ldg. Manningtree Page Rev. Arnold Henry M.A. The Rectory, Tendring, School Attendance Committee. Colchester ~Ieets at the "\Vorkhouse, Tendring, every alternate Smith John esq. Alton park, Clacton-on-Sea R.S.O wednesday at Io a.m. Woodgate John esq. Little Bentley hall, Colchester Clerk, A. J. H. Ward, Harwich Clerk to the Magistrates, H. "\V. Jones, l\fanningtree & Attendance & Inquiry Officer, W. C. Bareham, Lit.Clacton Colchester Petty Sessions are held at Mistley & Thorpe-le-Soken Schools. every monday week, alternately at 12 noon. The places Board School (mixed), built in 1842, for 124 children; in the division are Alresford, Ardleigh, Beaumont, average atl~ndance, 95 ; Miss Louisa Greenfield, mist Great Bentley, Little Bentley, Bradfield, Great Bromley, Little Bromley, Great Clacton with Clacton-on-Sea, Carriel'IS to Little Clacton, Elmst~ad, Frating, Frinton, Great Colchester-Frederick Moles, passes through mon. wed. Holland, Little Holland, Kirby, Lawford, 1\fanningtree, & sat. ; Arthur Parker, tues. thurs. & sat Mistley, Great Oakley, Little Oakley, Ramsey, St. Harwich-Arthur Parker, mon. wed. & fri Osyth, Tendring, Thorpe, Thorington, Walton-on-the­ Ipswich James Dnmerton, tues. & fri. returning same Naze, Weeley, Wix & Wrabness · day _County Police Station, Frederick Mills, constable ~Ianningtree-James Dumerton, tues. & fri