Great Tey 1863 Whites Directory
TEY (GREAT) is a pleasant village, 7 miles W. by N. of Colchester, 4 miles N.E. of Coggeshall, and about 2 miles from Marks Tey and Chapel Railway Stations. Its parish contains 818 inhabitants, and 2478A. 3R. 3P. of land, extending southward to Pattocks Green, and westward to Buckler’s Green. It has many scattered houses, and the soil is very fertile, and has a more abundant mixture of clay than the adjoining parishes. The small Roman river has its source here. The manor of Great Tey, or Tay,
was held by Duke Athalstan before the Conquest, and afterwards by the Earl of Boulogne, and the Fitz- Walter, Montgomery, Audley, and other families. It now belongs to Robert Hills, Esq. , of Colne Park.
The manor house was a seat of the Montgomeries, and was burnt down many years ago. Bacons and Flories form a smaller manor, of which John Rogers, Esq., is lord. Part of the parish belongs to several smaller owners. Wareyns Farm is the property of J. G. Lay, Esq. Trumpingtons, called also Fidlers, is a large farm, which had formerly a moated mansion.
The Church (Saint Barnabas) stands on an eminence, and is a fine ancient structure, with side aisles, and a large square tower rising between the nave and chancel, and containing a peal of eight bells. It was repaired and reduced in size about 1829. The aisles are separated from the nave by massive pillars, supporting semi-circular arches. The lead of the south aisle being cast into bullets during the civil wars, its place was supplied by tiles. The sinecure rectory, valued in K.B. at £18, and in 1831 at £620, was appropriated to a chantry founded in Dunmow priory church, in 1411, and is now in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Walsh, M.A., who is also patron and incumbent of the vicarage, valued in K.B. at £7, and now at £217. The tithes have been commuted, the rectorial for £552 and the vicarial for £236 per annum. The Rectory House was new fronted about eight years ago. Here is a National School, attended by about 80 boys and girls. About A.D. 1660, Samuel Hills bequeathed, in trust for the poor of this parish, Crouch House Farm, which comprises 13A. 23p. in the parishes of Colne- Wakes and Chappel, and is now let for £40 ayear, which is distributed by the trustees. Here is an acre of pasture ground, called the Camping Close, the herbage of which belongs to J. G. Lay, Esq. , but the parishioners have the right of occasionally using the field as a play ground. A small fair for toys and pedlery is held in the village on Trinity Monday.
POST OFFICE at B. Lockwood’s. Letters via Kelvedon
Bristow Rev. Whiston Timothy, B.A., curate
Crabb James, bricklayer
Dyer John, carpenter
Evans William, beerhouse
Eves James, smith and wheelwright
Fairs John, boot and shoemaker
Firmin Joseph, vict. Chequers
Flack John, policeman
Herman Samuel, parish clerk
Hutley William, blacksmith
Lay John Goodall, Esq. Walcotts
Lay John Watson, corn merchant, Walcotts
Lockwood Bernard, bucher, Post Office
Patmore Joseph, miller and baker
Poole Mrs Elizabeth, shopkeeper and victualler, Eight Bells
Ringer John, shopkeeper
Smith John, carpenter, & Ann, beerhouse
Walsh Rev. Wm. M.A. rector & vicar
Willamson Charles, shopkeeper
FARMERS.
Bickmore Thomas Lake, Flories
Cloughton Thomas, Baldwins
Goodey Jeffery, Moor Farm
Kemp William, Buckler’s Green
Lockwood Henry, Trumpingtons
Morris Bernard, Abraham’s Farm
Moss John ; h Earl’s Colne
Norton Hercules, Lambert’s
Overitt John (seed grower)
Pettitt John, Tey-Brook
Sharp James, Up-hall
Sharp John
Unwin Stephen, Elm Farm
Willsher James
Woodward Samuel, East Gores