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CRESSING

Post Office Directory of Essex ~ 1871

Submitted and Transcribed by Essex Villages

CRESSING is a village and parish, in the Eastern division of the county, Witham hundred,Braintree union and county court district, Witham rural deanery, Colchester archdeaconry, and diocese of Rochester, and formerly belonging to King Harold ll.; it is situated on a small feeder of the Blackwater, 3 miles south-east from Braintree, and 5 north from Witham and Kelvedon.  The Maldon, Witham and Braintree Railway passes through this parish, and has a station at Bullford. 

The church of All Saints is a small old stone building; it has a nave, chancel, small spire and 1 bell, and contains an ancient monument of the Nevilles, a few brasses, and font; it was restored and seated with open seats in 1868.  The register dates from the year 1754. 

The living is a vicarage, value �220, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Witham, and held by the Rev. William Hooper, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford.  Here is a National school.  The Independents have a small chapel here.  The Knights Templars, who had at one time had a commandery or preceptory here, called Cressing Temple, possessed the advowson; it subsequently passed to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, and reverted to the Crown at the general suppression of religious houses.  Captain Stuart is lord of the manor. 

The principal landowners are Captain Stuart and Jeffery Grimwood Grimwood, Esq.  The soil is a rich loam; subsoil, clay and loam.  The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley.  The area is 2,357 acres, and the population in 1861 was 582; gross estimated rental, �4,230; rateable value, �3,801.

BOARSLYE GREEN is a one mile south-east

Parish Clerk, James Kerlogue

Post Office- James Kerlogue, receiver

Letters arrive from Braintree at 8am.; dispatched at 5pm.  The nearest money order office is at Braintree

National School, Miss Susan Mary Partridge, mistress

Hooper Rev. William, M.A. Vicarage

Horsnaill William, Bullford mill

 

Commercial

Ayton John, carpenter

Baines Thorogood, Three Ashes

Cheek Eliza (Mrs.), beer retailer

Cousins George, farmer

Cousins George, jun. farmer

Cousins Thomas, farmer

Horsnaill & Catchpool, mllr, Bullford mll

Humphreys John, farmer

Johnson Hy. bricklayer & shopkeeper

Joscelyne James Robert, farmer & thrashing machine proprietor

Kerlogue Jas, shoe maker & parish clerk

Laver Joseph, farmer

Mears Joseph, farm bailiff to Thomas H. Shoobridge

Raynor Joseph, farmer

Russell William, carpenter

Sach Edward, farmer & miller

Sadler John, farmer

Stebbings Charles John, farmer

Theobald William, farmer

Totham James, boot & shoe maker

Tunbridge Jacob, farmer

Willers John, beer retailer & blacksmith


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