DIRECT JR Y. J ES~EX. BWB ONGAR. 447 Coe Hesketh, farmer Ling John, cycle agent - Segger William, farmer, Park house Collis Emma {Mrs.), shopkeeper Manning Richard Abraham, farmer, Smith Henry, hair dresser Collis Thomas Arthur, ironmonger Little Belhus, Glasscocli:s, Street & Spencer Charles E. Plough P .H Fleming John, farmer, Benton's & Quince Tree farms Springham ArthurGeorge,whee1wrigM Kemp's farms Marvell Thomas, shopkeeper Sturgeon Charles & William, farmers Grey Thomas, farmer, The Grange Mead Alfred John, pork butcher & millers (wind & steam), The Hall Gurnett & Benton, ironmongers Mead Walter, beer retailer Taylor John Medwin, saddler Hasler Alice (Miss), news agt.Post off Norton Frank J. P. Old King's Bead Taylor Samuel Geo. poultry farmer Hayden Alice (Mrs.), beer retailer P.H Webb William, school attendance Howland Stephen, boot repairer Osborne Henry, builder officer to the local advisory sub- Hull Martha Ann (Mrs.), confectioner Pavitt J oseph, shopkeeper committee for the Orsett union Johnston Henry Stapleton L.R.C.P. & Poulter Alfred, grocer (No. I district) S. & L.M.Irel. surgeon & physician, Poulter John, undertaker West Ham Distress Committee's Farm medical officer & public vaccinator Prior William, shopkeeper Colony (W. C. :Mullins, supt) for the Ockendon district of the Pruce Ernest Arthur, blacksmith White William, bailiff to E. Hesel- Orsett union Sayer Frederick George, fruiterer tine esq. Fen farm Kim ber Alfred, grocer Scraggs David, farmer, Gt. Mollards fl. CHIPPING ONGAR will be found under the letter • HIGH ONGAR is a parish on the road from Chipping Lady Jane H. Swinburne. The soil is gravel and clay. Ongar to Chelmsford and near the river Boding, I mile The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area north-east from Chipping Ongar station on the Great is 4,509 acres of land and 10 of water ; rateable value, Eastern railway, and 23 from London, in the Western £8,ogo; the population in I9II was 1,176. division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division and union of Ongar, Brentwood county court district, ASHLY'NS, otherwise Gapps, 3 miles north-west, a rural deanery of Ongar, archdeaconry of Essex and dio­ hamlet in this parish, is remarkable for an ancient cese of Chelmsford. The church of St. Mary the Virgin mansion here, now a farmhouse : here Thomas Howard, is a building of flint in the Norman style, consisting of 4th Duke of Norfolk K.G. is said to have concealed chancel and nave and a tower of brick at the south-west himself when charged with high treason for abetting angle, erected in I858 and containing a clock and 5 bells, Mary Queen of Scots ; he was eventually beheaded 2 dated 161o, 1728, I746, 1773 and I822; the base of the June, 1572, and buried in the Tower. tower forms a porch: the chancel was restored in 1884 and a stained east window has since been inserted at the MARDEN ASH is I mile north. The church of St. expense of the present rector; there is also a memorial James, erected in 1884, is a small building of stone and window~ erected in 1901, to the late Frederick Noble flint, consisting of nave only, and will seat 100 persons. and his son, George Nelson, and another, placed in Parish Clerk, George Phillips. ~904• to Mrs. H. E. J ones, of Marden Ash: there are Post Office. Edward John Brett, sub-postmaster. Let- about 200 sittings. The register dates from the year ters arrive from Ongar, Essex, at 6.35 & 11.10 a.m.; 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £840, dispatched 8.20 & II.2o a.m. & 6.10 p.m.; sundays, with 92 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs. arrive 6.35 a.m.; dispatched 9 a.m. Ongar is the Dora Nesbitt, and held since 188I by the Rev. William nearest money order & telegraph office Henry Bond M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Wall Letter Box, Nine Ashes, cleared at 9·45 a.m. & There are also six almshouses, founded by the Rev. Dr. 6.45 p.m. week days only Tabor in the 16th century. The charities, amounting Wall Letter Box, Marden Ash, cleared at 8.45 & 11.45 in the aggregate to £w, and consisting of numerous a. m. & r.5o, 7· 15 & 8 p.m.; sundays, 7· 15 p.m. only small legacies from Ios. upwards, are yearly distributed Police Station, Charles Drane, constable in charge in bread and clothing. The Fane Memorial Nursing Home was built in 1901 by voluntary subscriptions in Public Elementary Schools. memory of the late Rev. F. A. S. Fane B.A. vicar of High Ongar (mixed & infants'), built in 1867 & enlarged Norton Mandeville 1854-go. Forest Hall, the property I887, for 160 children; average attendance, 6o boys of John Walker Newall esq lord of the manor of & girls & 20 infants; Frank Whitbread, master; Mrs. Newarks and Ashe Hall and the principal landowner, Dinah Whitbread, infants' mistress; :Miss Jessie and now occupied by Harold McCorquodale esq. J.P. is Pepper, assistant mistress a mansion of stone picturesquely situated in a well- Paslow Common (mixed), built in 1895, for So children wooded park of 200 acres, and commanding an extensive & infants ; average attendance, 57 ; Mrs. F. Dodd, view of the surrounding country. The other landowners mistress; Miss Emmie Dodd, infants' mistress are Major George Edward Cape! Cure J.P. of .Shaken- These two schools are controlled bv Essex Education burst, Cleobury Mortimer, Salop, the trustees of A. (Ongar District) Sub-Committee, Arnold Richardson, Caton esq. Thomas Read: Hull esq. and the trustees of Or.gar, clerk (Marked thus t receive letters Tidmarsh William Charles, Bilberry, Hadlev Alfred, artificial teeth manu- through Ingatestone.) Marden Ash facturer, Brewery house PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Watson Rev. Robert Bruce Scoulan tHallows Harry Inman, farmer, Nine Bond Rev. William Henry M.A. (rec- A.K.C.(curate, Fermoy,Marden Ash Ashes tor), Rectory Hobby George Edwin, gardener to Boram Benj. Oak hall, Marden Ash COMMERCIAL. Col. Gordon Bucknole Henry Hallett, The Mill cot A.ger Arth. Robert, chimney sweeper Jackson Waiter, coal dlr. Marden Ash Carter Frederic J.P. Marden Ash Ager Arthur William, photographer Kerr James, farmer, Wardens farm Oomerford Hugh, Grays house t.Allison James, farmer, Spurriers (letters throug-h Bobbingworth) tDressler Otto, Oaklands,nr.Blackmre tAmos James, beer retlr. Nine Ashes tKing Waiter, beer retailer, Paslow tDyer W. Thomas, The Rookery tBass Henry Ebenezer, farmer, Nine Common Fenn Waiter Patrick, Ashley lodge, Ashes tKnight John, wheelwright,Nine .Ashes Marden .Ash tBonnington Chas.J.White Horse P.H tKnight Saml.wheelwright,NineAshes Gibson Misses, The Elms,Marden Ash Brett Edwd. Jn. shopkpr.& post office Lawrence Georg-e, Wheat Sheaf P.H Gilbert Mrs. Marden Ash Bryant Edward Stanley, insurance McMullen & Sons Limited, brewers, Goodall Rev. Alfred (Congregational), a15ent, Marden Ash (stores) Marden Ash Marden Ash Chambers Edward. farmer, New Maryon James, head gamekeeper to- Gordon Col. Henry Wilson, The House farm H. MoCorquodale esq Gables, Marden .Ash Cleaver Percv, farmer Matthew~ Williarn, blacksmith Gordon Lieut.-Col. John .Andriai' Cooper Perc~; Phillip, Red Lion inn Mead John, wheelwright. King street Davidson. The Gables, Marden Ash Coote Joseph Thos. insurance agent, Metson Arthur. farmer, King street Grattan Matthew Henry, Braeside, ~arden Ash IMonk Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Marden Ash Craig Hugh, jun. farmer, Paslow hall Montgomerie John, farmer, Nash hall Jones Henry Edward C.E., J.P. Mar- Dawsan Francis, school (boys & Montgomeri~ Wm. farmr.~hivE'rs hall den Ash house g-irls). Marden .Ash Moore Emlly Jane (M1ss), dress McCorquodale Harold J.P. Forest hall Deveni;:h Harry, fishmngr.Mard~nAsh maker, Marden Ash Oldfield Mrs . .Ashmount. Marden Ash Fane Memorial Nursing- Home (Mis~ National Deposit Frif'ndlv Society Pennington Bennett, Hillside, Mar- Ethel Cole, nurse; :Miss E. Jones, (Archibald George Houchin, sec.), den Ash hon. sec) ::\'lard en Ash Price Jeffery Charles Fox Caroline (Mrs.), beer retailer ~ewberv Richard, collector to the Smith Chas.Landview ho.MardenAsh Furze James R. farmer guardians & relieving- & vaccination Stock Edward Parris, The Cottage, Gemmill Andrew, farmer, Little officer for Ongar union, MardenAsh Paslow Wood Common Forest hall .