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BARKING - WITH THE VILLAGES OF ILFORD, EAST HAM AND NEIGHBOURHOODS.
Pigot's Essex 1832-3 Trade Directory
BARKING, once a market town, is in the hundred of Becontree, seven miles from the metropolis; situated upon the banks of the river Roding, which empties itself into the Thames about 2 miles and a half from the town. By means of a creek, which leads into a square basin at one end of the town, vessels are brought up, freighted with coals, timber, lime, &c, for the supply of the adjacent country, and there is a toll-free quay for the accommodation of the craft. But the principal welfare of the place is derived from its fishery, which gives subsistence to upwards of 900 men and boys, who are employed on board vessels of from forty to sixty tons burden, constructed with wells for the purpose of preserving the fish live, which are forwarded to the London market; they consist chiefly of turbot, soles and cod, taken on the Scotch and Dutch coasts: the persons in this useful avocation are generally of the most industrious habits, and seldom fail in making excellent sailors. Barking is said at one time to have derived some importance from the abbey, which was founded here in 670, but of which scarcely any remains are now standing.
The places of worship are the parish church, dedicated to St. Margaret, and two chapels for dissenters; the living is a curacy, in the holding of the Rev. Oliver Lodge. The charitable schools are, one upon the system of Dr. Bell, in which 400 children are educated (80 of whom are annually clothed), and another for infants. The workhouse was erected in 1787, and is a spacious and convenient building. Queen Elizabeth founded the market house, which, with the market place, was granted in 1616, by Charles I, to Samuel and John Jones. The market is entitled to be holden on Saturday, but it has ceased to be observed; an annual fair is held on the 22 September, chiefly for pedlery and pleasure. The parish of Barking is rather extensive, and is divided into four wards, respectively denominated 'Town,' 'Chadwell,' 'Ilford' and 'Ripple,' which collectively contained (by the government returns) in 1801, 3,906 - in 1811, 5,543, in 1821, 6,374 - and in 1831, 8,306 inhabitants; being an increase in 30 years, of 4,130 persons.
ILFORD (or GREAT ILFORD) is a village and chapelry in the ward of its name, and parish of Barking, two miles north-west from that town; on the high road to Chelmsford, and on the banks of the Roding, which divides this village from that of Little Ilford. It is a respectable village, having a number of handsome houses and some good Inns, - the latter well supported by the great thoroughfare of the place. The erection of a handsome church, which was opened in 1831, has added to the consequence and appearance of Ilford; and at Little Ilford is the house of correction for the county, a new and spacious building, completed also in 1831. Besides the church, there is a chapel of ease, and two others for dissenters. The minister of the new church is the Rev Stephen Craff, and of the chapel of ease, the Rev Barton Lodge. Here is an hospital, originally founded in the reign of Stephen, for a prior, warden, master, two priests and thirteen lepers; in 1739 it became possessed by the Gascoigne family. The population of Ilford ward, by the last government census (1831), consisted of 3,512 inhabitants; being an increase, since the year 1801, of 1,788 persons.
EAST HAM is a village, in the same hundred as Barking, not quite a mile from that town, situated near to the Thames; inhabited by many opulent families. The views from this neighbourhood over the county of Kent are considered of great beauty. The parish church is an ancient plain-looking building, but its interior possess some curious old monuments. The living is a vicarage, of which the Rev William Streatfield is the incumbent. There are six almshouses, endowed in 1621 by Charles Breame, Esq., for three poor inhabitants of this parish, and the like number of the parish of Bottesham, in Cambridgeshire; here is also a charity school for girls. The parish contained, by the census taken in 1831, 1,543 inhabitants.
POST OFFICE, BARKING, at the George Inn, High street, William Chalk, Post Master. - Letters from LONDON arrive every morning at eight, every afternoon at one, and every evening at eight; and are despatched every morning at eight, and every afternoon at three.
POST OFFICE, ILFORD, John Gatty, Post Master. - Letters arrive every morning at eight, noon at twelve, and evening at six; and are despatched every morning at ½ past 8, and every afternoon at ½ past 3.
POST OFFICE, EAST HAM, John Moss, Post Master. - Letters arrive and are despatched every morning at a quarter before nine, and every afternoon at a quarter before four.
Transcribed by Teri
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
HAM, (or EAST HAM), a village and a parish in West Ham district, Essex. The village stands near the London and Southend railway, and near the river Roding, 1 mile WSW of Barking; and has a station on the railway, a police station, and a post-office, of the name of East Ham, under Barking, London E. The parish contains also the hamlet of Greenstreet; and extends from Wanstead-Flats to the Thames at North Woolwich. Acres, 2,495; of which 40 are water. Real property, £13,564. Pop., in 1851, 1,550; in 1861, 2,264. Houses, 333. The increase of pop. arose partly from the opening of the railway station, partly from the establishment of industrial schools belonging to St. George-in-the-East. The property is divided among a few. Some of the land is rish marsh, and affords pasturage for many cattle. The manor belonged anciently to Waltham abbey. Greenstreet House is said to have been built for Anne Boleyn, and belongs now to J. Morley, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £865. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is partly Norman; has a nave and two chancels, - the upper chancel semicircular; and contains a piscina, and a monument to Edmund Neville, Lord Latimer. Dr. Stukeley, the antiquary, was buried in the churchyard. A new church was built in 1863, at a cost of about £3,000; is in the late first pointed style, with some foreign features; consists of nave, transepts and chancel, with central tower; and stands in a central location. There are national schools, alms-houses with £75, and other charities, with £22.
ILFORD (GREAT), a small town, a chapelry, and a ward in Barking parish, Essex. The town sttands on the river Roding, and on the Eastern Counties railway, near Epping forest, 3½ miles ENE of Stratford; is within the jurisdiction of the central criminal court and the Metropolitan police; and has a station of the name of Ilford on the railway, a post-office of the same name under London E, a police station, a reading-room, a church, Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and an endowed hospital with a chapel. The church is a modern edifice, of white brick, in the lancet style; and has pinnacles at the corners, a large cross over the E window, and a tower with light spire. The hospital was founded, for lepers, in the time of Henry II., by an abbess of Barking; was reconstituted by Queen Elizabeth, for six poor men, and for a town chaplain; is an edifice of the 15th century, much modified by alterations and repairs; forms three sides of a quadrangle, with the chapel on the S side; is under the marquis of Salisbury, as master and patron; and has an income of £65. The river Roding was made navigable to the town in 1738. _ The chapelry was constituted in 1836; included then Barking-Side, Aldborough-Hatch, Chadwell-Street, and a potion of Hainault Forest; and was re-constituted, to the exclusion of Barking-Side, in 1841. Rated property, inc. of Barking-Side, £24,200. Pop., in 1861, exc. of Barking-Side,3,688. Houses, 750. The property is much subdivided. Fossil remains, comprising very large bones of oxen, horns and bones of stags, a spiral horn, 13 feet long, and the head, teeth, and bones of an elephant different from the elephants of Asia or Africa, were discovered, in 1812, in a field near the river Roding; and other fossil remains, including teeth and tusks of the hippopotamus, were found in a neighbouring field. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London. Value, £430. Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The p. curacy of Aldborough Hatch is a separate benefice. The ward is more extensive than the chapelry. Pop., in 1851, 3,745; in 1861, 4,523. Houses, 903.
ILFORD (LITTLE), a village and a parish in West Ham district, Essex. The village stands adjacent to the river Roding and to the London and Tilbury railway, ¾ of a mile NE of East Ham r. station, and 3¼ E by N of Stratford; and has a post-office under Ilford., London E. The parish contains also the new village of Green-Hill Grove. Acres, 763. Real property, £3,220. Pop., in 1851,187; in 1861,594. The increase in pop. arose from the formation of Green-Hill-Grove village. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to J.W. Wight, Esq. Ilford Lodge and Ilford Cottage are chief residences. The new City of London cemetery is here; was opened in 1856; comprises and area of 89½ acres; and was formed at a cost of £80,000. The Essex county house of correction also is here; was erected in 1831; and has accommodation for 51 male and 5 female prisoners. Petty sessions are held in this building every Saturday. The living is a rectory in the diocese of London. Value, £408. Patron, J.W. Wight, Esq. The church is old but good, and contains several handsome monuments. Charities, £31.
Transcribed by Noel Clark
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