Buttsbury is a parish on the road from Chelmsford, to Billericay, 3 miles south east from Ingatestone station, 3 north from Billericay and 5 south west from Chelmsford, in the mid division of the county, Chelmsford hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Barstable, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of St Albams. The more populous part of the parish is adjacent to and forms part of the village of Stock. The church of St Mary is a small and ancient building, of brick and plaster in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel and nave, south porch and a western tower of brick containing one bell: the church formerly belonged to the nunnery of St Leonard, at Stratford le Bow: there are 100 sittings.
The register of baptisms dates from 1657; burials 1668; marriages 1694. The living is a rectory annexed to that of Ingatestone, joint net yearly value £340, and held since 1886 by the Rev Charles Earle BA of St Catherines College, Cambridge, who resides at Ingatestone. Lord Petre is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is loamy; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2,104 acres of land, and 9 of water; rateable value £3,484; the population in 1911 was 697.
Letters received through Ingatestone arrives at 7.30 am. The nearest money order office & telegraph office is at Stock.
The children of this parish attend school at Stock, 1-3 miles distant.
Private Residents
Bagwell William, The Elms
Bolt Charles George, Millwood
Christie James
Cooper Mrs Charles, Bush hall
Commercial
Billericay Rural District Council District Infections Diseases Hospital, Joseph Douglas Wells MB medical officer; Miss Eleanor Jones, matron.
Galbraith Helen G (Mrs), farmer, Fristling hall
Handcock Stannas Henry, farmer, Ramsey Tyrrells
Harrod Frederick, cartage contractor, Hill cottage
Hodge John, farmer, Slough house
Knightsbridge Henry E, farmer
Nisbet John, farmer, Great Blunts
Thorogood Samuel, farmer, Whyte Tyrrells
Tyler Hy, farmer, New House farm