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admin Bradfield 1848 Whites Directory BRADFIELD is a pleasant and well-built village on an acclivity on the south side of the estuary of the river Stour, and mostly on the Manningtree and Harwich road, 3 miles E. by S. of the former, and 9 miles W. by S. of Harwich. Its parish contains 995 inhabitants, and … Read more
Little Bentley 1848 Whites Directory BENTLEY, (LITTLE) 8 miles E. of Colchester, and 5 miles S. by E. of Manningtree, is a village and parish, containing 462 souls, and about 2000 acres of land, with a fertile soil , varying from a heavy to a sandy loam, and giving rise to two sources of a … Read more
Great Bentley 1848 Whites Directory BENTLEY ( GREAT) is a large and pleasant village, scattered round an extensive level green or common, of 42 acres, on the eastern side of the vale of a rivulet, 8 miles E.S.E. of Colchester. It has a fair for toys, pedlery, &c. , on the Monday after the 15th … Read more
Beaumont Cum Moze 1848 Whites Directory BEAUMONT CUM MOZE, is a scattered village, 7 miles S.E. of Manningtree, and 9 miles S.W. of Harwich, occupies a gentle eminence near the head of the creek called Hainford Water, which is navigable for vessels of 70 tons up to Beaumont Bridge, where there is a wharf and … Read more
Ardleigh 1848 Whites Directory ARDLEIGH, a pleasant village on the Colchester and Manningtree road, 5 miles N.E. of the former, and 4 miles S.W. of the latter town, has a Station , with a large yard for coal, lime, &c., on the Eastern Union Railway, near which an extensive steam corn-mill has recently been erected. … Read more
Alresford 1848 Whites Directory ALRESFORD is a pleasant village and parish, on the eastern side of the vale of the river Colne, 5 miles S.E. of Colchester, containing 289 souls, and 1427A. 2R. 25P. of land, watered by two rivulets, which fall into a creek of the Colne, on the south side of the parish. … Read more
Tendring Hundred 1848 Whites Directory – parishes in this Hundred TENDRING HUNDREDIs a peninsular district, bounded on the north by the estuary of the river Stour, which separates it from Suffolk ; on the east, by the German Ocean ; on the south, by the latter and the estuary of the river Colne; and on … Read more
Roding Beauchamp 1848 Whites directory ROOTHING-BEAUCHAMP, or Roding Beauchamp, is a parish of scattered houses, on the west side of the river Roding. It has 1259 acres of land, and 246 inhabitants, including the small hamlet of Bird’s Green. T. W.Bramston, Esq., is lord of the manor, and owner of a great part of the … Read more
Abbots Roding 1848 Whites directory ROOTHING, (ABBOTS) or RODING-ABBESS, is a parish of scattered houses, at the north end of this Hundred, 6 miles N. by E. of Chipping Ongar, adjacent to eight other Roothings, or Rodings, which are intersected by and have their common name from the river Roding . This parish contains only … Read more
High Ongar 1848 Whites directory ONGAR ( HIGH) is a large village on the Epping and Chelmsford road, about a mile N.E. of Chipping Ongar, and its parish contains 4181 acres of land, and 1240 inhabitants. It may be considered asuburb of the market town of Ongar, from which it is separated only by the … Read more