Buttsbury is a parish and pleasant village, situated on the summit of a range of hills, on the road from Chelmsford to Billericay, 3 miles south from Ingatestone station, 3 north from Billericay and 5 south west from Chelmsford.
The church of St Mary is small, being only 36 feet by 21, the chancel 28 feet long and 21 wide on the outside; at the west end it has a square tower of brick with 1 bell: the church formerly belonged to the nunnery of St Leonard at Stratford, Bow. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Ingatestone, joint yearly value £420 in the gift of Lord Petre, and held by the Rev Lewis Parkin, MA of St Johns College, Oxford. Lord Peter is Lord of the manor and chief landowner, The soil is light; subsoil white sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley.
The area is 2,116 acres, and the population in 1861 was 531; gross estimated rental, £3,437; rateable value, £3,107.
Letter received through Ingatestone, which is the nearest money order office.
Bridge Thomas, Ramsey Tyrrells
Clarke Arthur
Coverdale Mrs
Hardy Benjamin, Whytes Tyrrells
Mott William, Greenwoods
Commercial
Bacon John, Cock inn
Barrett Joseph, Bear
Bridge, Thomas, farmer & landowner, Ramsey Tyrrells
Brown Arthur, blacksmith
Brown William, blacksmith
Calloway John, tailor
Carter Charles, farmer
Clarke Arthur, surgeon
Collard John (exeutors of), farmer
Cottee Alfred, baker
Dale Walter, proprietor of thrashing machines
Dodd Thomas, beer retailer
Duke frederick, darper & grocer
Eve George, shopkeeper
Haines Maria (Miss), farmer, Great Blunts
Hardy Benjamin, farmer, Whytes Tyrrells
Hardy Charles, farmer, Slough house
Harrod Joseph, farmer
Jarvis James, shopkeeper & bricklayer
King Robert, shoe maker
Mulley Alfred, beer retailer – Bakers Arms
Norris Thomas, cowkeeper
Oddy John, cattle salesman
Palmer Elizabeth (Miss), seminary
Plume George, carpenter
Plume Jesse, carpenter
Reed William, carter
Smith Mary (Mrs), beer retailer
Tuck Whitbread Harrison, grocer & draper
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