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admin ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS. (Marked take Boarders .) INCLUDING ALSO SPRINGFIELD AND MOULSHAM in the 1863 Whites directoryBritish School, Friars street, David Grigsby and assistantsCharity School, Joseph and Mrs Mitchell , Church street*Fitch Mrs. Baddow road*Free Grammar School, Duke street, Rev. Charles Wm. Arnold, M.A. head master ; Rev. C. P. Marriott, M.A. second master ; … Read more
Chelmsford POST OFFICE is in High street, and Mr. Augustus Stokes is the postmaster. Letters are despatched by rails to London andall parts twice a day; and by mail carts every morning to Dunmow and Bishop Stortford ; to Ingatestone ; and to Maldon, Burnham, and Southminster. Postmen every morning to Broomfield, Leighs, Waltham, Writtle, … Read more
History of Chelmsford and its suburbs, Moulsham and Springfield in the 1863 Whites directory CHELMSFORD, the county town, is pleasantly situated near the centre of Essex, at the confluence of the rivers Chelmer and Can, the former of which is navigable for small craft from its junction with the Blackwater, at Maldon, about ten miles … Read more
Brentwood Essex 1839 Pigots Directory BRENTWOOD, WITH THE VILLAGES OF SOUTH WEALD, SHENFIELD, INGRAVE, EAST HORNDON, GREAT AND LITTLE WARLEY, AND NEIGHBOURHOODSBRENTWOOD is a chapelry, once a market town, in the parish of South Weald, and hundred of Chafford; situated on the main Essex road, between Romford and Chelmsford; lying on the main road between … Read more
WEST THURROCK is a long straggling village, extending more than a mile along the road and the marshes on the north side of the Thames, opposite Greenhithe Pier, and between Grays Thurrock and Purfleet, 16 miles E. by S. of London, and 9 miles S.E. of Romford. Its parish includes Purfleet hamlet, and contains 2863 … Read more
UPMINSTER, a pleasant scattered village, on the western side of the Ingerbourn rivulet, and partly on an eminence, 35 miles E.S.E. of Romford, is surrounded by several handsome mansions, with beautiful pleasure grounds and plantations. Its parish contains 3157A. 1R. 8P. of fertile land, and 1342 inhabitants, ofwhom about 300 are in CORBETS TYE hamlet, … Read more
WENNINGTON is a marshland parish of scattered houses, on the north side of the river Thames, from 1 to 2 miles W.N.W. of Purfleet, 8 miles S.S.E. of Romford, and 14 miles E. of London.It contains 177 inhabitants, and 1285A. 2R. 39P. of land ; and belonged to Westminster Abbey before the Conquest, and was … Read more
WARLEY, (LITTLE) a small parish of scattered houses, 3 miles S. by E. of Brentwood, contains 1651A. 1R. 32P. of land, and in 1851 had 344 inhabitants, besides 644 in the Barracks. In the reign of George III. a large army was encamped here, and in the parish are Warley Barracks, built by Government, about … Read more
WARLEY (GREAT) is a long scattered village, from 2 to 3 miles S. ofBrentwood, and its parish increased its population from 596 souls in 1841, to 952 in 1851, and to 1215 in 1861. It contains 2653A. 2R. 11P. of land, having a heavy soil on a clay bottom, and giving rise to two sources … Read more
Purfleet 1863 Whites directoryPURFLEET is a village and military station on the north side of the river Thames, at the mouth of a rivulet, and at the west end of West Thurrock, to which parish it is a hamlet, though sometimes called a township. It is 16 miles E. by S. of London, and 8miles … Read more