Little Wigborough 1863 Whites directory
WIGBOROUGH (LITTLE) is a small village, on a declivity, overlooking the salt marshes and the estuary of the Blackwater, 8 miles S. by W. of Colchester, between Great Wigborough and the Mersea and Salcott creeks. Its parish contains 92 inhabitants, and 1152A. of land, including about 134A. of low marshes and saltings ; the latter covered by the tides at high water. Copt Hall, an old mansion, near the church, gives name to a manor belonging to the Charter House, London, to which it was sold by Sir John Cotton; but part of the parish belongs to Isaac Green, Esq., and a few smaller owners.
The Church (St. Nicholas) is a small plain building, with a square tower. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £10, and in 1831 at £252, is in the patronage of the Charter House, and incumbency of the Rev. Frederick E. T. Drake, M.A., of Colchester. The parsonage is a small old building, let as a cottage, and the glebe is 21A. 3R. 6P. Mr. Challis Carter occupies Copt Hall Farm, and the other farmers are Mrs. Mary Thorrington,
and Mr. Charles Cock, of West Mersea. Isaac Abbott is the parish clerk.