Coopersale
| Coopersale | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 The ‘’Garnon Bushes’’, Coopersale | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL475024 |
| Location: | 51°42’7"N, -0°8’2"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,019 (2018 est.) |
| Post town: | Epping |
| Postcode: | CM16 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Epping Forest |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Epping Forest |
Coopersale, also termed Coopersale Common, is a village in Essex. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 1,019.
This village was originally part of the Parish of Theydon Garnon, and the two names, Coopersale and Theydon Garnon were used interchangeably for the parish and its main village. Today, the name of Coopersale is that of a small village in the north of the ancient parish to the east of Epping, while Theydon Garnon is a hamlet two miles to the south, tucked against the junction of the M25 and M11 motorways.
History
In the 1870s the little village of Theydon Garnon, otherwise Coopersale, was a village two miles south of Epping, centred between Coopersale House at the south of the Coopersale village, approximately at the location of Fiddlers Hamlet further south.[1][2][3] The dual name of the village and parish had been prevalent since the late 1500s.[4]
In 1855 the name Coopersale was still interchangeable with Theydon Garnon. By 1882 though Coopersale was subordinated as a part of Theydon Garnon civil parish with the Church of St Alban being described as a parish district church. By 1902, for civil purposes Coopersale, grouped with Coopersale Street, was part of Epping, but the ecclesiastical parish for rectorial purposes was still part of Theydon Garnon.
By 1912 Theydon Garnon parish including Coopersale, Coopersale Street and Fiddlers Hamlet, provided for forty children a cottage home called Forest Side at Coopersale. It closed in 1960 and was demolished and replaced by modern residences.[5]
Between 1871 and 1911 Coopersale's population, as part of Theydon Garnon and later Epping, ranged between 638 and 672, although that in the ecclesiastical parish, always larger, was 760 in 1911. By 1921, the population had risen to 756. The area of the Coopersale district over these years approximated 600 acres, in which the chief crops grown were wheat, barley and beans.[6][7]
Trades listed in 1894 included a hay dealer, a blacksmith, three builders, a brickmaker, a painter, a shopkeeper, two farmers, and two beer retailers one of whom was a butcher. By 1902, two farmers, a 'brickmaster', a painter, a blacksmith remained, as did two beer retailers, but one at Coopersale Street which seemed to be listed with Coopersale. Added occupations were a gardener, a wheelwright, a carpenter, a grocer & hardware dealer, a shopkeeper, a company of builders, and the surveyor to Epping Urban District Council. Further occupations in 1914 were an insurance agent, and at Coopersale Street a woman who undertook hand laundry.[6] By 1933 occupations included a painter, an unmarried woman as beer retailer, two unmarried sisters running a shop, a married woman as beer retailer at Coopersale Street, a limited company building firm, and a farmer at Home Farm.
Coopersale House
Coopersale House, of "Tudor style", was the centre of an estate with grounds which were described as being "extensive and well arranged and contain a large sheet of water." An earlier house of John Archer (1598–1682),[8] with an added late 17th-century wing, was rebuilt to a contemporary design in the early 18th century. The grounds were laid out for William Eyre Archer in the 1730s to the design of Adam Holt, the gardener of Wanstead Park, accommodated by the diversion of the public road of Houblons Hill away from the house. Later in the century Capability Brown provided design plans for the grounds which weren't carried out. The estate had been held by the Archer (later Archer-Houblon) family since the time of Henry V who changed the name of his Agincourt attendant Simon Dubois to Archer after Dubois performed well in an archery contest at Havering-atte-Bower. In 1914 Coopersale House was listed as unoccupied. The Archer-Houblon family sold the house and estate in 1914 and it remains in private ownership.[4][6][9][10][11][12] Coopersale House a Grade II listing.[13]
St Alban's Church
The parish church is St Alban the Martyr. It is a Grade II listed building, built in the Gothic Revival church, built 1852.[14] It stands at the point where Coopersale Common Road runs into Houblons Hill
Accompanying the church is a church hall, known as Parish Rooms (built 1882) and also a Grade II listed building/[15] The former vicarage to the church, also built 1852 and Grade II, is adjacent to the church at the north-west.[16] Coopersale House, dating to the 17th century and Grade II, is at the south of the village on Houblons Hill and close to the hamlet of Coopersale Street.[13]
The church was built to serve the growing village: as the 19th century progressed, Coopersale was seen as the identifiable northern district of Theydon Garnon parish. It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1852 and in the same year St Alban's Church was built. The church with its rectory was financed by Miss Harriet Archer-Houblon of Coopersale House as was the 1882 adjacent parish room. Miss Archer-Houblon's advowson provided for the church incumbency, which came with five acres of glebe land. This patronage lay with the Archer-Houblon family until 1914, when it was transferred to the Bishop of Chelmsford.[6][4][17]
St Alban's Church is described in trade directories as of flint, with a nave, south [actually south-east] porch, a west turret with one bell [no evidence of such today], and a chancel containing a credence, piscina and sedilia. Memorial windows are to the Houblon family and to Miss Archer-Houblon. There are 220 sittings for worshippers. A new lychgate was added to the churchyard in 1907, and an oak reredos to the chancel in 1913.[6][7] The incumbency in 1874 was a vicarage, of a net value of £180 with 5 acres of glebe, in the gift of Miss Archer-Houblon. The area of glebe remained the same until at least 1914. The value of the vicarage was higher in 1902 at £285 in the gift of Colonel G. B. Archer-Houblon, and in 1914 at £280 in the gift of Captain H. L. Archer-Houblon.[6]
Outside links
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- Coopersale and Theydon Garnon C.E. Primary School
- Coopersale House, Epping, England
- Coopersale Cricket Club
- Brown, Fred: Coopersale, local history publication (1996)
References
- ↑ "Thoydon-Garnon", A Vision of Britain Through Time, University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 19 July 2018
- ↑ Wilson, John Marius (1870-72) Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
- ↑ "Coopersale Essex", A Vision of Britain Through Time, University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 18 July 2018
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A History of the County of Essex - Volume 4 pp 258-262: Theydon Garnon: Introduction (Victoria County History)
- ↑ "Epping Cottage Homes", The Workhouse: The Story of an Institution. Retrieved 18 July 2018
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Trade diectories: Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex (1855) p.149 / Post Office Directory of Essex (1874) p.225 / Kelly's Directory of Essex (1882) p.295; (1894) pp. 340, 341; (1902) p.153 / Kellys Directory of Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex (1914) p.192
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kelly's Directory of Essex 1933, pp.187, 188
- ↑ {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=encyclopaedia }}
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- ↑ Coopersale House, Epping, Parks & Gardens UK. Retrieved 18 July 2018
- ↑ Template:Usurped, Capabilitybrown.org. Retrieved 18 July 2018
- ↑ Cowell, Fiona. "Adam Holt (1691?-1750), Gardener: His Work at Coopersale House, Essex." in Garden History 26, no. 2 (1998), pp.214-17
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 National Heritage List 1124148: Coopersale House (Grade I listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1337459: St Alban's Church (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1236045: St Alban's Church Hall, to North West of St Alban's Church (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1169533: Former Vicarage (Grade II listing)
- ↑ A History of the County of Essex - Volume 4 pp 269-271: Theydon Garnon: Church (Victoria County History)