Stock and Buttsbury 1848 Whites directory
BUTTSBURY parish, 2½ miles E. of Ingatestone, and 6½ miles S. by W. of Chelmsford, has 521 inhabitants, and 2,021 acres of land, including 104A. ofwood, and 15A. of waste. Its houses are mostly intermixed with the village of Stock , and its Church ( St. Mary,) is a small ancient structure, on the western side of that village, and is now but seldom used. The benefice is a donative curacy, annexed to the rectory of Ingatestone. The parish has been variously spelt Botelnesbury, Botulfespyrie, &c. It is mostly freehold, belonging to Lord Petre, G. Penton, Esq., and other proprietors ; and lies in the seven manors of Blunts, Frestling or Thrustling, Impey Hall, Crondon, White’s and Ramsey Tyrells, and Buckwins. The church was appropriated to the nunnery of St. Leonard’s Bromley, which had a cell or hermitage here. The poor have £5 yearly from James’s Charity.
STOCK, 2 miles E. of Ingatestone, is a village and parish, adjoining and intermixed with Buttsbury, as noticed above. It contains 605 inhabitants, and about 2,620 acres of land, lying in the same manors as Buttsbury, and belonging to Lord Petre, and many smaller proprietors. The soil is mostly light, resting on a stratum of white sand and gravel, but on and near the Common, which extends northward nearly to Galleywood, a stiff loam prevails, called brick andpot earth, because it is well suited for the manufacture of those articles. The name Stock, (a block of wood,) is supposed to indicate that in the Saxon era, the parish had abundant remains of an ancient forest. Lord Bayning compounded with the Crown for dis- afforesting Bushy-Lees, (70A.) Stock-Mead, and other lands in this parish, parcel of the manor of Blunts. W. P. Johnson, Esq., has a handsome seat here, called the Woodlands, erected in 1847, at the cost of about £7,000, in the Grecian Doric style. The village, swelled bymost of thehouses and inhabitants of Buttsbury, is considerable , and has several neat mansions, It is situated on a bold eminence, commanding extensive views of the surrounding country.
Church (All Saints,) is an ancient brick structure, except the tower and spire, which are entirely of wood. The tower consists of thick planks fixed into deep grooves between the studs; and has three bells and aclock. The chancel was rebuilt in 1847, and the nave was at the same time thoroughly repaired, and newly fitted up with open benches, and a new roof. The new windows, doors, arches, mouldings, &c. , are admirably executed in the decorated style which prevailed in the reign of Edward III. , so as to correspond with the original portions of the edifice. The Rectory, valued in K.B. at £10, and in 1831 at £658, with that of Ramsden Bellhouse annexed to it, is in the patronage of Mrs. Edison, and incumbency of the Rev. E. J. Edison, M.A., who has a large and handsome Rectory House, in the Tudor style, recently much improved. The tithes of Stock were commuted in 1839, for £435 per annum. The Rev. Charles Hoole, M.A., editor of several useful school books, was rector here from 1660 to 1667. His successor was the Rev. Thos. Cox, the compiler of ” Magna Britannia et Hibernia, Antiqua and Nova,” in six quarto volumes. National Schools, for 200 children, were built here in 1839, of red and white brick, in the Tudor style. In the village is an Independent Chapel, erected about 40 years ago. Here are four Almshouses for four poor men, two of this parish, and two from Boreham, founded by Richard Tweedy, who, in 1574, endowed them with a farm called Prentises, in Stow Maries; but this now valuable farm was purchased in 1788, by John Strutt, subject only to the yearly payment of £13. 12s. to the almspeople. In 1601, Edward James left, for the equal benefit of the poor of Stock and Buttsbury parishes, a cottage and 4A. of land, at Downham, now let for £10.
In 1833, £30, derived from the sale of timber, was expended in re- building the cottage.
STOCK AND BUTTSBURY.
Those marked * are in Buttsbury, and § are land owners.
Bridge Mrs. L.
*Murrell Mrs.
*Callaway John, tailor
*Clark John, maltster
*Edison Rev. Ewd. Jno., M.A., Rectory
§*Eldridge Thos. Esq. , Greenwoods
Fletcher James, surgeon
Hewitt Jno. painter, plumber, &c.
*Isaacs Rev. John, (Independent)
§*Johnson W. Prior, Esq. , Woodlands
Kent Mr. John
Knightbridge Miss
§Lenox John, Esq. , Stock Lodge
Makings George, saddler
Millington Henry, hair dresser
§Moss William , gent.
*Pullen Thomas.
Newcombe Samuel, vict. Cock
Reed John, brickmaker
Sanderson J. , vict. King’s Head
§*Spitty Thomas J. , Esq.
*Steward Thomas, vict. Bear
Thomas Mr. Robert
Waters William
FARMERS.
§*Bridge Thomas, Ramsey Tyrell
Barnes Joseph, Brook
*Clark Samuel, Slough House
*Collard Joseph
Norris Thomas
*Haines Joseph, Great Blunts
*Horner Robert , White’s Tyrell
Jordon William, Bellwhins
Moss William, jun., (and miller)
*Park George, Buckwhins
*Reeve Samuel, Buttsbury Hall
§Parnell Thos.
Rolph John
BAKERS.
Adkins John
*Chapman Chas.
Lowe William
BEER HOUSES.
*Smith Mary
*Threadgold William
BLACKSMITHS.
*Brown Thomas
Makings William
BRICKLAYERS.
Jarvis John
*Jarvis James
*Taylor John
BUTCHERS.
Knightbridge Hy.
Parnell William
CARPENTERS
Millington William
Plume William
*Pullen Thomas
SCHOOLS.
Corker Miss
Fiddler My. and Lydia
Millington Henry
*Palmer Eliz
SHOEMAKERS .
Reeve Samuel
Brown Samuel
Saltwell George
SHOPKEEPERS.
*Goslett Alfred
*Jarvis James
*Perry William
Staines Joseph
WHEELWRIGHTS.
Atherton James
Brooks William
POST OFFICE
at H. Knightbridge’s ; letters from Ingate