WIGBOROUGH (GREAT AND LITTLE), PELDON
Pigot's Essex 1832-3 Trade Directory
Mersea Island, Langenhoe and Fingrinhoe
GREAT WIGBOROUGH is situated between Maldon and Colchester; distant from the former ten miles, and from the latter eight. The parish contains about 2,000 acres of land. - LITTLE WIGBOROUGH is the adjoinging parish to Great Wigborough.
PELDON is a village and parish, about 5 ½ miles south from Colchester. - MERSEA ISLAND joins the parish of Peldon, and is compassed by branches from the sea; it is approached at low water over a space left at ebb tide, for about a quarter of a mile. The island is divided into two parishes, designated EAST and WEST MERSEA: the church of the latter parish is a handsome building, containing some good monuments; that of the former is a small edifice, with a spire. The island is inhabited chiefly by opulent farmers and their agricultural assistants.
LANGENHOE is situated about four miles from Colchester, on the Maldon road. FINGRINHOE is a parish of small consequence, adjoinging to Langenhoe.
The whole of the above-mentioned parishes are in the hundred of Winstree, and each contains its parish church. The POPULATION of the several places, by the census for 1831, is as follows:- GREAT WIGBOROUGH, 434 inhabitants; LITTLE WIGBOROUGH, 123; PELDON, 424; EAST MERSEA ??00; WEST MERSEA, 847; LANGENHOE, 146; and FINGRINHOE, 542.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
PELDON, a parish and a sub-district in Lexden district, Essex. The parish lies near Mersea island, 4½ miles SW of Wivenhoe r. station, and 5½S by W of Colchester; and has a post-office under Colchester. Acres, 2,186. Real property, £3,591. Pop., 501. Houses, 106. The property is much subdivided. Peldon Lodge is a chief residence The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £583. Patron, the Countess of Waldegrave. The church stands on an eminence, with commanding view; is later English, with a tower; and was restored in 1859, and then found to contain remains of an early Norman church. There are a national school, and charities £20.
Transcribed by Noel Clark