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ALDHAM directories

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866

ALDHAM, a parish in Lexden district, Essex; near the Colne river, 2 miles N of Marks Tey r. station, and 5 ENE of Coggeshall. Post-town, Marks Tey under Colchester. Acres, 1,825. Real property, £2,558. Pop., 406. Houses, 94. The manor belonged to the De Veres. The property is subdivided. The place is a meet for the East Essex hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £327. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church is very good. Charities, £32.  Morant the historian was rector of Aldham.

Transcribed by Noel Clark

KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933

ALDHAM is a village and parish, including Ford Street, 1 mile north from the Marks Tey station of the London and North Eastern railway, 5½ west-by-north from Colchester, and 5 east-north-east from Coggeshall, in the Colchester division of the county, hundred of Lexden (Witham division), Lexden and Winstree petty sessional division and rural district, Colchester, Clacton and Halstead joint county court district, Coggeshall and Tey rural deanery, Colchester archdeaconry and Chelmsford diocese. The church of St. Margaret and St. Catharine is a building of flint with stone dressings, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, situated nearly in the centre of the parish, 1 mile from the site of the old one, and was erected and consecrated in 1855, all the material of the old church being used in the construction of the new: it consists of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, south porch, and a western tower of the 14th century, with spire containing 2 bells the wooden south porch, removed from the old church, is in a good state of preservation: there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £410, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. P. E. Warrington and held since 1933 by the Rev. John Bertram Thomas Rudall. The charities amount to £77 yearly, and include pensions to the inhabitants of four almshouses, erected and endowed by the Rev. Charles Bannatyne, formerly rector, together with Crape’s charity and Love’s gift. A fair was formerly held on Easter Tuesday, but is now discontinued. On the side of the road near the church stands a memorial of dressed red granite, bearing the names of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War. The trustees of the late Sir Thomas Charles Callis Western bart. who are lords of the manor, and Herbert James Hines esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is light loam. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 1,864 acres of land and inland water; the population in 1931 of the civil parish was 431 and of the ecclesiastical parish in 1921, 353, including the hamlet of Ford Street, which is on the road from Colchester to Halstead, near where is crosses the Colne.

Post, M. O., T. & T. E. D. Office, Ford Street. Letters through Colchester

Conveyance.—Omnibuses pass through daily at frequent intervals for Halstead & Colchester

Carrier.—-Cammack passes through from Halstead to Colchester tues. fri. & sat

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