~!RECTORY. J ES~EX. STANFLRD-Ll':-HOPE. 581 Post Office.-William Barker, sub-po~:~tmaster. Letter~ Wall Letter Box, cleared -t·55 p.m. daily & 10.55 a.m. from Rochford, Essex, arrive at 6.30 & 10.30 a.m. snndays Box cleared at 10.30 a.m. & 4·55 p.m.; on sundays, Pniblic Elementary School (mixed), enlarged in 1894 for 1:0.55 a.m. Th~ nearest money order & telegraph 130 childrpn; average attendancP, go; Erne,.,t LPslie offic-e is at Rochford, 2 miles distant Jenner, master; Mrc;. Mer:<on, a~sistant mistress; Mrs. Jenner, mfants' teacher tlurnside Rev. Francis Rashleigh, Bem.on .A.rthur, shopkeeper Smith Harry,coach builder, see Lodg~ The Rectory Homestead Geo. farmer, Biggins frm & Smith Rankin Barold, Broom hills Kemp Frederick, beer retailer Smith WilJiam, farm bailiff to Messrll 'Rennie David Lazell Herbert. farmer A. :M. & H. Rankin, Great Stam Steel John, Brick house Lodge & Smith, coach builders, Bal- bridge Hall farm lards Gore Stannard James, Royal Oak P.H COMMERCIAL. Parker Richard, farmer, see Strutt Steel John, farmer, Brickhouse, Bar Bannister Mark, farm bailiff to John & Parker ton Hall, Hampton's Barn & 'Moab Steel esq. Hampton's Barn Purkiss Jn.Wm. & Son,machine ownrs & Springs farms ~arker William, baker, Post office Purkiss William Edwin, farmer Strutt &; Parker, farmers, Stewart's Elm,; , LITTLE STAMBRIDGE is a village and parish, ' rectory, unit-ed in 1889 to that of Gre.1t Stambridge, Il miles north-east from Rochford station on the South- I joint net yearly value £540, in the gift of the Lord end branch of the Great Eastern railway, in the South Chancellor and the Governors of the Charterhouse, and Eastern division of the county, Rochford petty sessional held since 1:900 by the Rev. Francis Rashleigh Burnside, -division, hundred and union, Southend county court dis- who resides at Great Stambridge. James Tabor esq. triet, Canewdon and Southend rural deanery, Essex J.P. of The Lawn, Rochford, is lord of the manor and .archdeaconry, a.nd Chelmsford diocese. In 1888 the principal landowner. The soil is clay and marl; sub­ parishes of Great and Little Stambridge were ecclesias- soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, peas. tically united nnder the Union of Benefices Act, and beans and potatoes. The area is 6o1 acres of land and -the union was confirmed by Order in Council, :March 5 of inland water; rateable value, {,1,308; the popula- 19, 1889 The church of St. Mary, a small edifice of tion in rgu was 171. 'brick and rubble sto~e, was removed under. a faculty Pillar Letter Box cleared at Io. a.m. &; . ~ p.m. ; -ahortly after the umon of the benefice with Great ' 4 5 5 -' . "d h t" • sunday at 11.10 a.m. Letters from Rochford arrive at Stam b r1 ge as no 1onger nect>ssarv; sue por 1ons as I ._ ... Th t d & t 1 · f ~ t· . h u.30 "" 10.30 a.m. e neares monev or er e e- 'W~re. of any use were g1ven or mcorpora Ion m t e graph office is at Rochford 1 miles distant orrusswn chapel of the Church of England at Southend. 1 ' 3 The register dates from the year 1659. The living is a The children attend the school at Great Stambridge Reeve Charles, The Paddock Rankin A. M. k H. Ltd. farmers & PRIVA.TE RESIDKSTS. Soal ·Sydnf'v. Percival. The Rectorv- I miller!' (stPam & water), Stam­ Beehag Gideon James. Coombs COMMERCIAL. bridge steam roller flour mills 'Coe Alfred, Old Brewery Cottis. Beehag & Co. farmers, Stranks Jaml's, Cherry Tree inn Keyes William, White house Coornbs farm STANFORD-LE-HOPE is a village and pari~h, of more than £3,000, of which about £1,ooo ·was con­ on Mucking Creek, near Hope Reach, on the Thames, tributed by the rector: this work included the re­ and on the road from Grays to Southend, with a station on newal of the nave and chancel roofs, re-flooring thl' the London, 'filbury and Southend railway, which has a nave and aisles, the raising of the tower 20 feet and branch here to Thames Haven for cattle, and is 6 miles the erection of five new stained windows: during the -north-east from Tilbury Fort, 6 north-east from Grays, restoration a curious fresco was uncovered, conjectured t6 south-east from Romford and 27 from London. The to represent "J·lcob's Dream: " the church was rl'­ parish is in the South Eastern division of the county, opl'ned April 29, 1878, by the Bishop of St. Albans: tht­ Barstable hundred, Orsett union and petty sessional divi- pinnacles on the tower were renewed in 1884. Vestries and aion, Grays county court district, and in Orsett and a lych gate were erect-ed in 1891, and in 1901 an organ Grays rural deanery, Essex archdeaconry, and diocese of was provided at a cost of £65o: the first part of a Chelmsford. The church of St. Margaret, standing on chancel screen was erected in I9II at a cost of £1:26: a rising ground, is a building of stone in the Norman, the church affords about 350 sittings. The register of Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chan- baptisms and burials dates from 168o; marriages, 1688. ~1. nave, aisles, south porch, each with an eastern The living is a rectory, net yearly value £450, with 28 -chapel or chantry, and an embattled tower with pin- acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of trustees, nacles, on the north side, containing a modern clock and held since 1902 by the Rev. James Russell. There .and 6 bells, hung in 1884 in place of 5 others, three is in Branksome avenue the novice house of the Society -()f the old bells are dated 1694, 1703 and 1734 : the of Divine Compassion. The Catholic church, in South­ chancel is a fine specimen of the Decorated period of end road, is dedicated to St. Joseph and will seat 250 Edward Ill. and retains three sedilia and a piscina: a people. The Wesleyan chapel here was erected in 186g, reredos was erected in 1898 as a memorial of the Dia- and that belonging to the Peculiar People in 1870. 111ond Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. at The Salvation Army has a hall in London road. Art a cost of [.6o: a very fine arch, partly filled with ex- and technical instruction classes are held at the -eellent oak screen work, opens into the north chapel: school. Charities : Mrs. Elizabeth Davison left in 1789 in a niche in the north wall of the chancel, b£>neath a [.1,292 7s. 4d. in Bank of England Reduced 3 per crocketed ogee arch, is an altar-tomb of Perpendicular Cents. the interest to go towards the education of poor date, which has formerly borne a brass effigy and in- people in the Protestant religion; this now (1914) scription, now lost: the nave is separated from the amounts to £38 r5s. 4d. John Paine in 1798 left £Ioo aisles by arcades or Early English and Decorated work in 3 per Cents. to be distributed in bread and money. and the south aisle has a panelled roof of massive oak Downe's Charity (se.e Mucking) amounts to [,x per and a door of like character: the south chapel, inclosed I year. A market- is held on alternate Tuesdays. A by a strong and high latticed gate, is appendant to the piece of land called the Poor's Field, rented at £x, has -manor of Hassingbrook; at its eastern end is a corbel belonged to the parish from time immemorial. The of the ancient altar stone and a plain piscina: the Vine House and Orchard, Fobbing, brings in £6 per "basement of the tower was formerly a chantry, and the year, nnd Earl'& Hope, Stanford, £2 per year. The 'brackets supporting its altar remain: the font, restored trustees of the Mashit-er family and the trustees of in 1878, is an exceedingly beautiful design of Early the late John George Eve are the principal landowners. English date, much mutilated, as is also its ancient The soil is light; subsoil, gravel and sand. The chit'f oaken canopy: the south chapel is crowded with the crops are wheat. and beans. The area is 2,616 acres of monuments of the Fetherstons, from x6qo to I77.t• and land, much of which is marsh, 6 of inland and 662 of of their successors, the Scrattons, to 1841: on the east tidal water and 2<;0 of foreshore; rateable value, wall of the chancel is a memorial to Richard Champion [.13,132; the population in 19II was 2,545 in the civil -esq. ob. 1599, and an inscription slab to Thoma" Alleyn and 2,228 in the ecclesiastical parish. S.T.P. a former rector, ob. 1677: in the north aislE' By Local Government Board Order, No. 54,633, was buried, Dec. 11, 1721, Jacob Rousignac M.A. and which came into operation April 1, 19Io, part!t of in 1718, his wife Magdalen: outside the wec;;t wall of Horndon-on-the-Hill and "Mucking were added to Stan­ the charch is an elaborately-decorated tomb, with a ford-le-Hope for civil purposes. canopied slab affixed to the wall, inscribed to Jame~ About :r mile east are two whar~es at wh- Adams esq. of NPw Jenkins, who died 9 Oct. 1765: t'an be discharged. f>'~NIINGH_..~ "the charch was thoroughly rPstored in 1877-8, at a cost Parish Clerk, Waiter Wade.