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 Little Wigborough Kelly's 1894 Directory Page 379



Little Wigborough is a parish about 1 mile south-east from Great Wigborough near the marshes and creeks of the estuary of the Blackwater, in the North Eastern division of the county, Winstree hundred, Lexden and Winstree petty sessional division and union, Colchester county court district, and in the rural deanery of Mersea, archdeaconry ...
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Little Wigborough Kelly's 1894 Directory Page 379

Little Wigborough is a parish about 1 mile south-east from Great Wigborough near the marshes and creeks of the estuary of the Blackwater, in the North Eastern division of the county, Winstree hundred, Lexden and Winstree petty sessional division and union, Colchester county court district, and in the rural deanery of Mersea, archdeaconry of Colchester and diocese of St Albans.. The church of St Stephen [sic], situated near the sea shore, is a building of stone in the Early English style, restored in 1886-1887 at a cost of £1,000, and consists of chancel and nave and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing one bell: there are 65 sittings, but services are no longer held in this church. The register of baptisms dates from 1586; burials, 1588;, marriages, 1592. The living is a rectory annexed to that of Great Wigborough, joint net yearly value £310, with 20 acres of glebe here, in the gift of Col. Gordon Watson, and held since 1886 by the Rev. Frederick Theobald M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford, who resides at Great Wigborough. The manor and land chiefly belong to the Governors of the Charterhouse, London. The soil is heavy; subsoil, loamy. The chief crops are wheat, beans and a considerable quantity of pasture. The area is 1,214 acres of land and 168 water; rateable value, £439; the population in 1891 was 84.

Letters through Colchester arrive about 8am. Peldon is the nearest money order office and Tolleshunt D'arcy nearest telegraph office
Pillar Letter Box cleared at 6pm
The children attend school at Great Wigborough

Bean Alex. (exors. of), farmers, Copt Hall
Hubbard Rev. John (curate)
Wright John, farmer

With thanks to University of Leicester - specialcollections.le.ac.uk
Date: 1894      


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