Ardleigh
| Ardleigh | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 The Street, Ardleigh | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TM052295 |
| Location: | 51°55’37"N, 0°58’59"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,058 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Colchester |
| Postcode: | CO7 |
| Dialling code: | 01206 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Tendring |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Harwich and North Essex |
Ardleigh is a village and parish in Essex. It is situated approximately four miles north-east of the centre of Colchester and 25 miles north-east of the county town of Chelmsford.
Ardleigh is in the Tendring peninsula and hundred. The village has its own Parish Council.[2] The parish had a population of 2081 according to the 2001 census[3] and includes the area known as Crockleford Heath.
The Great Eastern Main Line passes close to the village but the railway station closed in November 1967. The closest railway station is now at Manningtree, three miles to the north-east. The village is on the A137 road, a route from Colchester to Ipswich, Suffolk.
Ardleigh Reservoir is less than a mile to the south-west.
The area includes a number of smallholdings founded by the Land Settlement Association.[4]
References
- ↑ "Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120058&c=Ardleigh&d=16&e=62&g=6425808&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1443102336040&enc=1. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ↑ "Town and Parish Council and Clerks Details". Tendring Council. Archived from the original on 14 May 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060514062045/http://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/TendringDC/Council/townandparishclerksdetails.htm. Retrieved 23 January 2007.
- ↑ "2001 Census: Key Statistics > Parish Headcounts > Area: Ardleigh CP (Parish)". Office for National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=794633&c=Ardleigh&d=16&e=15&g=446618&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1275416912001&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ Bercaw, Louise Oldham; "Bibliography on Land Utilization 1918-36"; p. 1011
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ardleigh) |
- Ardleigh in the Domesday Book
- "St Mary The Virgin's Church, Ardleigh", Essex Churches
- "Ardleigh's Past", Ancestry.com, Free Pages
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