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 Chelmsford division of the county, Chelmsford hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Barstable, archdeaconry of Essex and Chelmsford diocese. 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 1919 by the Rev Robert Pemberton MA of University College, Oxford, who resides at Ingatestone.
The trustees of Joseph, Lord Petre, who is a minor, are lords of the manor and chief landowners. 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 £4,442; the population in 1911 was 697.
Letters received through Ingatestone arrives about 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
Bolt Charles George, Millwood
Christie James, The Knoll
Cooper Mrs Charles, Bush hall
Dennison Frederick, The Elms
Jarvis James, Dukes hall
Commercial
Billericay Rural District Council Infections Diseases Hospital, Miss Eleanor Jones, matron.
Candy John Walt, farmer, Imphy hall
Heathcote Thomas, farmer, Fristling hall
Nisbet John, farmer, Great Blunts
Piggott Percy G, farmer, Slough house
Thorogood Samuel, farmer, Whyte Tyrrells
Tyler Frederick, farmer, New House farm
Wright Percy, farmer, Ramsey Tyrrells