Great Warley 1855 Post Office Directory

History of Great Warley

Great Warley, West Warley or Warley Abbess, is a large, scattered parish, the residence of many respectable families. The views form Warley Hill, the residence of Mrs Clay, and Warley Place, the residence of General Bonham, are beautiful and picturesque. It is in Chafford Hundred and Romford Union, South Essex, 6 miles east of Romford, 18 from London, 7 north of Grays, and 2 south of Brentwood station. Acreage – arable, 1,339; pasture, 1,017; common, now enclosed, 159, and wood, 209. The population, in 1851, was 952. The church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is an ancient building. The living is a rectory, valued at £520, in the presentation of St John’s College, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev Hastings Robinson DD. A National school has been built by the rector. The population, in 1851, was 951, having been lately doubled, since the enclosure of Warley Common, a few years since, a new church, called Christ Church, with the parsonage and school, have been erected, for which a district is about to be formed out of those portions of North Warley, Shenfield and South Weald, lying in its immediate neighbourhood, but upwards of two miles from their respective parish churches. The endowment has been given by Miss Clay. The County lunatic asylum, capable of holding 450 patients, is in the adjoining parish of South Weald, about half a mile from the new church.

 Warley Street is a portion of Great Warley, 2 miles from Brentwood

 

Gentry

Bonham Gen Pinson, Warley Place Bonham Lieut-Col Clay Mrs Agnes Clay Miss, Rectory Cross miss

Cruse Rev Fras MA [curate], Brick house English Rev J F H, Warley House Robinson Rev Hastings DD, Rectory Sowter Rev Joseph MA [chaplain to the Asylum] Wallis Mrs Penelope, Halmers

 

Traders

Barrett Joseph, ‘Thatchers Arms’ Burrows James, shoemaker Carswell James, baker Clark John, beer retailer Coppen Isaac, farmer Cross John, farmer Crossingham John, grocer, corn dealer & postmaster, Warley Street Daldy Edward M, coal merchant Francis Samuel, farmer Francis Samuel Richard Green, farmer Gentry William, beer retailer Grove Edward, cow keeper Hammond John, builder Hammond John, ‘Headley Arms’ Hawes Daniel, farmer Henfree J, butcher Hill Thomas, contractor

Hitchcock b, blacksmith Howard Catherine (Mrs), milliner Howard William, beer retailer Johnson Henry, ‘Prince Albert’ Knightbridge Thomas, farmer Lemon Fredk Wm & Hy Joslin, grocers Mayhew Edward, carpenter Mumford Charles, gun & whitesmith Nightingale Misses, ladies school Parker George, ‘Soldiers Hope’ Parker James, farmer Parson John jun, farmer Shuttleworth Arthur, farmer Springham Nathaniel, farmer Woods Richard, farmer Young Henry, tobacconist

Post Office – John Crossingham, receiver, Warley Street. Letters arrive by foot post from Brentwood 8 am; dispatched ½ past 6 pm. The nearest monet order office is at Brentwood.

Public Schools:-

Upper (for boys & girls), Mrs Elizabeth Knightsbridge, mistress

Lower, Mrs Sophia Overell, mistress

 

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