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South Ockendon lies in a region of valley gravel. (fn. 5) The village is about 75 ft. above sea-level, on a ridge running north and south through the centre of the parish. To the east, and to the south at Stifford bridge, the land slopes down to about 15 ft.
The road system of South Ockendon has probably changed little since the Middle Ages, except in the south-west of the parish, where building has been going on since the 1930s. (fn. 6) The main road from Brentwood to Grays Thurrock runs along the central ridge, passing through the village, which clusters round a green. From this point a chase runs east to the moated site of the former South Ockendon Hall, and West Road runs through North Ockendon to Rainham and Upminster. East of the main road, both north and south of the village, lanes lead to scattered farms.
Of the buildings around the village green, the oldest, apart from the church, is the Royal Oak. The north cross-wing and part of the hall range are late medieval; the rest dates from the 17th century or later. Other 17th-century buildings have been demolished in the 20th century, but two timber-framed houses of that period remain in South Street. They adjoin a symmetrical terrace of brick-fronted early19th-century cottages, which formerly had semicircular heads to the doorways and windows but are now mutilated by shop-fronts.
In 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville's tenant at South Ockendon was Turold, his steward. (fn. 31) In that or the preceding year Turold's son Ralph, who already held many other Essex manors, agreed to his father's grant from the tithes of the manor to the priory of Hurley (Berks.), (fn. 32) but no proof of his succession to the manor has been found, and nothing is certainly known of the tenancy in demesne of the manor for almost a century.
The division of the manor was completed in 1531. (fn. 48) Clement Harleston took the hall and most of the lands in the south and south-east of the parish. Thereafter this part of the old manor was termed the manor of SOUTH OCKENDON HALL.
Kingsman died in 1704. He had disinherited his son Petre for making an unsuitable marriage, and left his estates to a cousin Josiah Kingsman. (fn. 54) Josiah (d. 1719) was succeeded in turn by his sons Josiah (d. 1733) and Jasper (d. 1754), and by Jasper's son, another Jasper. (fn. 55) The younger Jasper (d. 1784) left his estates for life to his widow Ann (d. 1789), after whose death they were sold. At the time of the sale in 1789, the manor of South Ockendon Hall, with 671 a., was held by John Cliff. (fn. 56) He bought the estate then or in the next year or two, and later enlarged it by buying other South Ockendon properties. (fn. 57) There is no reference to the manorial rights after 1789.
The subsequent descent of Mollands has not been traced until 1692, when the estate was sold by William Bayley of Stepney (Mdx.) and his wife Mary to (Sir) William Des Bouverie (Bt.) (d. 1717) for £4,600. (fn. 86) Mollands passed with the baronetcy to Sir Edward Des Bouverie (d. 1736) and then to his brother Sir Jacob, who was created Viscount Folkestone and died in 1761. Lord Folkestone's son, William Bouverie, earl of Radnor, sold the estate in 1771 to Guy Bryan (d. c. 1775). Mollands passed in succession to Bryan's son Guy (d. 1783), grandson Joseph Bryan (d. 1784) and daughter Mary (d. 1787), before coming to his nephew, another Guy Bryan.
The farm-house is largely of the 17th century, but part of the North wing is of the early 16th century. (fn. 103) In 1974 the house was empty; the farmyard was occupied by a building firm, and the farm lands had been built over.
In 1744 the west side of the tower fell twice. It was rebuilt a second time in 1745, when its height may have been reduced. (fn. 174) A gallery formerly at the west end of the nave was probably of the 18th century.
The monuments in the north chapel include brasses to Sir Ingram Bruyn (d. 1400), Margaret (d. 1602), wife of Edward Barker of Chiswick (Mdx.) gentleman, and Gilbert (d. 1585), eldest son of Sir Richard Saltonstall, the purchaser of South Ockendon Hall. A large wall-monument, with kneeling figures of Sir Richard and Lady (Suzanne) Saltonstall, dominates the chapel. Less oppressive wallmonuments without figures recall George Drywood (d. 1611), a rector, and Philip Saltonstall (d. 1668). A floor-slab of black marble commemorates Sir William How (d. 1650).
South Ockendon (formerly Wesleyan) Methodist church, West Road, apparently originated in 1809, when a house was registered for worship by Henry Smith. (fn. 199) Smith and his wife, who are said to have been members of Wesley's Chapel, City Road (Lond.), kept the village shop at South Ockendon. (fn. 200) He seems to have led the society at least until 1851. (fn. 201) In 1829 South Ockendon, still with a licensed house, was in the Spitalfields circuit. (fn. 202) It was placed in the Romford circuit in 1833. A church was built in West Road in 1847. It was enlarged in 1857 and a Sunday school was added in 1891. (fn. 203) It was in the Ilford circuit from 1908 to 1947 and in the new Romford circuit from 1947.
John Cliff, by will dated 1832, gave an annuity of £5 to provide bread on his birthday for such of the pious poor of South Ockendon, attending the Congregational chapel or the parish church, as the minister of the chapel should select. In the 1970s the income, administered by the United Reformed church, was given to South Ockendon Over-60s club, usually to provide Christmas dinners.
1. O.S. Map 1/25,000, TQ 58, 68.
2. O.S. Map 6", Essex, LXXV, LXXXIII (surv. 1863–6).
3. Kelly's Dir. Essex (1899), 282 and 361, citing L.G.B. order, no. 22,350 of 24 Mar. 1888.
4. W. Thurrock (Constitution of Urban District) Order, 1928; Essex Review Order, 1935.
5. V.C.H. Essex, i. 16.
6. The roads shown on Map of Essex (1777) lead to farmhouses dating from the 16th and 17th centuries.
7. V.C.H. Essex, iii. 165; cf. Thorne, Environs Lond. 457; E.A.T. 3rd ser. ii. 83.
8. V.C.H. Essex, i. 505.
9. E 179/107/13, m. 7d.; E 179/108/150.
10. E.R.O., Q/RTh 5, m. 2d.
12. Statements in this and the next paragraph derive from R.C.H.M. Essex, iv. 141–3 unless otherwise specified.
13. C. Harrold, Discovering Thurrock, 22.
15. E.R.O., Q/SO 24, ff. 551, 599.
16. Pigot's Dir. Essex (1839).
17. White's Dir. Essex (1848).
18. Pigot's Dir. Essex (1839); White's Dir. Essex (1863); Kelly's Dir. Essex (1866–1902).
19. E. Carter, Hist. Geog. Rlys., 477.
20. Thorne, Environs Lond. 457.
21. Strat. Expr. 20 Feb. 1884; Kelly's Dir. Essex (1886– 98).
22. Thurrock Official Guide , 20; , map. The course of development is suggested by the road names of the area, which, in groups, begin with successive letters of the alphabet, A to I.
23. V.C.H. Essex, vi. 106, 111; cf. Rep. Cttee. S. Ockendon Hosp. H.C. 124 (1974).
24. Kelly's Dir. Essex (1937); Thurrock Official Guide  and later edns.
25. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B106; E.R.O., D/DBe E71.
28. V.C.H. Essex, i. 505.
29. Complete Peerage, v. 113–37; vi. 467.
30. Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, pp. 378–9; E.R.O., D/DP F305.
31. V.C.H. Essex, i. 505.
32. Early Med. Misc. for D. M. Stenton (P.R.S. N.S. xxxvi), 107.
33. Reg. Sudbury (Cant. & York Soc.), i. 210–11; Cart. Mon. Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria (Roxburghe Club) i. 4; E.A.T. N.S. viii. 375; Feet of F. Essex, i. 272–3; Reg. Regum Anglo-Norm. iii, p. 102; Cur. Reg. R. x. 108; E.R.O., T/P 195/2, p. 6; V.C.H. Wilts, x. 87.
34. Cur. Reg. R. x. 108. William was already paying scutage for the Lavington manor in 1194–5: Red Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.), i. 89.
35. Pipe R. 1198 (P.R.S. N.S. ix), 138.
36. Cur. Reg. R. xi. 469; Bk. of Fees, ii. 1347, 1349.
37. Close R. 1231–4, 373; 1242–7, 207; 1254–6, 158–9; 1261–4, 11.
38. Ibid., 1261–4, 124; Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, p. 30.
39. Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, p. 133; Cal. Close, 1279–88, 343.
40. Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, pp. 163, 495; v. 366–7. Cf. V.C.H. Essex, iv. 80, 211.
41. Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, p. 495.
42. The Brun or Bruyn descent is set out in Complete Peerage, ii. 355–8. Information in this paragraph derives from this source, unless otherwise indicated.
43. Cal. Close, 1374–7, 340.
44. Feet of F. Essex, iii. 205; Newcourt, Repertorium, ii. 379, 448.
45. By her second husband, Sir William Brandon, she was the mother of Charles, duke of Suffolk (d. 1545).
46. Cal. Pat. 1476–85, 358, 419, 524, 530; C 60 2 Ric. III 18 m.14. The first item refers to the Bruyn heiresses and their first husbands; Alice Bruyn's second husband, Robert Harleston, died in 1471.
47. Complete Peerage, ii. 358; Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, p. 236.
49. C 142/93/74; C 142/151/51; C 142/157/67; C 142/163/ 54.
50. C 142/766/68; C 142/778/144; E.R.O., D/DGe T82.
51. E.R.O., D/DGe T82; C. T. Kuypers, Thorndon, 20. Cf. V.C.H. Essex, iv. 211.
52. Morant, Essex, i. 154; E.R.O., D/DP T 167/3.
54. E.R.O., D/DSq E1; D/DZu 7; E.R.O., T/P 195/2: in 1707 Petre Kingsman was receiving £160 a year.
55. E.R.O., D/DZu 16, 19 for information about the Kingsman family in this paragraph.
56. E.R.O., D/DZu 209. Kingsman's estate received £13,250 for the manor.
57. E.R.O., Q/RPl 116; E.R.O., D/DU 535.
59. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B1531; White's Dir. Essex (1848), 192–3; E.R.O., D/DBe T49.
60. For the descent and sale, see p. 112.
61. E.R.O., Q/RPl 156; White's Dir. Essex (1848, 1863); Kelly's Dir. Essex (1845–1926).
62. O.S. Map 6", Essex, LXXV (surv. 1865–6); but though White's Dir. Essex (1848) refers to the 'fine old moated mansion', White's Dir. Essex (1863) is silent.
63. E.R.O., D/DBe E55, 57: the rent, £50 a year, was first paid from Lady Day 1875.
64. E.R.O., D/DP T1 A1688. Cf. Reg. Baldock (Cant. & York Soc.), 280.
65. Prob. 11/6 (P.C.C. 2 Wattys).
66. V.C.H. Essex, v. 276–7.
67. E.R.O., D/DGe T82; he also took the Lady chapel in the parish church apparently: see p. 123.
68. Guildhall MS. 9531, f. 123(69); L. & P. Hen. VIII, xiv (2), p. 68.
70. He was alive in 1573: C.P. 25(2)/129/1650.
71. C.P. 25(2)/129/1653; ibid./130/1663; D.N.B. The estate may originally have been intended for his son Gilbert (d. 1585) who married Ann Harleston from the neighbouring South Ockendon Hall: Morant, Essex, i. 101.
72. C 142/271/175; S. Ockendon ch. reg. I; R.C.H.M. Essex, iv. 141.
73. S. Ockendon ch. reg. I; Morant, Essex, i. 101; V.C.H. Essex, v. 194.
74. The Gooderes consistently used the name John. The descent is therefore uncertain. John Goodere (d. 1756: S. Ock. ch. reg. I) was probably the husband of Philippa Saltonstall; cf. V.C.H. Essex, v. 194.
75. E.R.O., Q/RPl 141, 142; E.R.O., D/DBe T22: letter of 9 July 1817; W. Palin, More about Stifford, 101.
76. Gent. Mag. 1839 (i), 330; E.R.O., D/DBe E34; E.R.O., D/AEM 1/5.
77. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B3894. Old Samuel Gurney also bought the Cranham estate, for his second son, Samuel (d. 1882).
78. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B106; E.R.O., D/DBe E71; Street Farm had been sold a year earlier: E.R.O., Sale Cat. B4515.
79. E.R.O., Q/RTh 5, m.2d.
80. E.R.O., D/AEM 1/5. Map of Essex (1777).
82. V.C.H. Essex, i. 505.
83. B.L., Cott. MS. Nero E. vi, ff. 20IV., 202v.; Cal. Inq. p.m. viii, p. 273; Cal. Wills Husting, i. 658.
85. Prob 11/54 (P.C.C. 30 Daper): C 142/766/68; C 142/778/144.
86. E.R.O., D/DU 535: the source of all information in this paragraph.
88. E.R.O., Q/RPl 135, 136 sqq.
89. Prob. 11/1786; E.R.O., Sale Cat. A191: the latter is the source of all information in this paragraph, unless otherwise specified.
91. The name of her husband is not given.
92. Cf. E.R. lxiv. 83.
93. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B1531; E.R.O., D/DU 535. Unless otherwise specified, information in this paragraph derives from the latter source.
94. From 1902 Manning was also farming, in South Ockendon, Little Belhus, Great Mollands, Glasscocks, Street, and Quince Tree farms.
95. V.C.H. Essex, vi. 106, 111; Inf. from Newham B.C.
97. R.C.H.M. Essex, iv. 143.
98. E.R.O., D/DU 535: indenture of 25 Nov. 1846 citing Cliff's will of 13 July 1832.
99. E.R.O., D/DBe M18 includes certified copies of court rolls 1391–1577.
101. E.R.O., D/DBe E7–9, 42, 54.
102. E.R.O., D/DBe P5; Kelly's Dir. Essex (1845 and later edns.).
103. R.C.H.M. Essex, iv. 142.
104. V.C.H. Essex, i. 505: the source of all statements in this paragraph, unless otherwise specified.
105. Ibid. vi. 74; and see above, p. 106; below, p. 134.
106. Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, p. 163; cf. Cal. Close, 1360–4, 142: the lessee of S. Ockendon may take timber at Beckenham for the repair of S. Ockendon dwellings.
107. Cf. V.C.H. Essex, i. 369–73.
108. Cal. Inq. p.m. xi, pp. 229–30.
109. C 142/151/51; E.R.O., Q/SR 351/27; cf. Ag. Hist. Eng. iv, ed. Joan Thirsk, 214–18; H.O. 67/16; cf. E.R.O., Q/SBb 336/27.
111. E.R.O., Q/RPl 156; Kelly's Dir. Essex (1922).
112. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B1531; Gent. Mag. 1855(2), 108.
113. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B1531; E.R.O., D/DBe E68 f. 34d.
114. Kelly's Dir. Essex (1895–1922).
116. 2nd Land Utilization Survey of Britain, Land Use sheets 225–6.
117. V.C.H. Essex, i. 505.
118. Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, p. 163; xi, p. 229; C.P.25(2)/129/1653 and 130/1663.
120. E.R.O., Q/RPl 127–57 (1802–32); so many changes of ownership, tenancy, and assessment occur between 1801 and 1832 that the mill cannot be further traced; but cf. R. Wailes, 'Essex Windmills', Trans. Newcomen Soc. xxxi. 179.
121. D. Smith, Eng. Windmills, ii. 60, 64–5; Trans. Newcomen Soc. xxxi. 153–80.
122. E.R.O., D/DBe E68, f. 38d.
123. Kelly's Dir. Essex (1922–6); Smith, Eng. Windmills, ii. 65.
124. Cal. Pat. 1247–58, 341.
125. Inquisitions in 1277 and 1295 are silent (Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, p. 133; iii. p. 163), but cf. Cal. Pat. 1429–36, 458 for a confirmation of the market and fair in 1435.
126. Lond. Gaz. 14 Nov. 1873, p. 4964.
127. E.R.O., D/DRu E1; E.R.O., D/CT 261.
128. Thurrock Official Guide [1954, 1959].
130. Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), i. 148–9.
131. E.R.O., D/DP M1149–53: compoti for S. Ockendon in 1318–19 and 1384–5 (M1152–3); S. Ockendon rentals, c. 1350 and 1556 (M1150–1); court roll of 1561 (M1149).
134. E.R.O., D/DBe M19; cf. M18 (court of 1567).
135. E.R.O., Q/SR 399/120; Hale, Precedents, p. 256.
138. E.R.O., D/P 118/8/3; D/P 308/12/3.
139. E.R.O., G/Or M1: 22 Oct., 19, 26 Nov. 1835.
140. Ibid.: 22 Nov. 1838, 10 Jan., 7 Feb. 1839; cf. E.R.O., G/Or Z3, f. 104.
142. E.R.O., Q/CR 1/9/3, 1/12. The gross yield of the rates from 1800 to 1817 averaged £406 14s.
143. Hart, Early Chart. Essex, 40.
144. Newcourt, Repertorium, ii. 448–9; E.R.O., T/A 547; Guildhall MSS. 9550, 9552, 9556–8, 9560; C.P. 43/802/35.
145. E.R.O., D/DU 535; E.R.O., T/P 110/85; cf. E.R.O., D/AEM 2.
146. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B1531; Clergy List (1856); Venn, Alumni Cantab., II. iv. 105; Kelly's Dir. Essex (1859); White's Dir. Essex (1863).
147. Chelmsford Dioc. Yr. Bks. (1925, 1926).
149. E.A.T. N.S., xviii. 18; Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 22; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i. 36.
150. Hart, Early Chart. Essex, 39; Reg. Sudbury (Cant. & York Soc.), i. 210–11.
151. Reg. Sudbury (Cant. & York Soc.), i. 200–2.
152. Smith, Eccl. Hist. Essex, 136; Guildhall MSS. 9550, 9556–8, 9560.
154. Newcourt, Repertorium, ii. 448; Guildhall MS. 9558; E.R.O., D/CT 261.
155. O.S. Map, Essex, 6" LXXV (surv. 1865–6) and 1/25,000, LXXV. 15 (1895 edn.).
156. Inf. from Thurrock Local Hist. Mus.
157. Newcourt, Repertorium, ii. 448; R.C.H.M. Essex, iv. 141; cf. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B1531; Acc. 4659 for the rectory in 1845 and 1880.
158. Papers in church safe; Thurrock Official Guide (1968, 1971).
160. Hart, Early Chart. Essex, 40.
161. C.C.L., J. L. Fisher, 'Essex Incumbents'; P. H. Reaney, Early Essex Clergy, 122–3.
163. Smith, Eccl. Hist. Essex, 116–17, 134–6.
164. Smith, 'Parochial Clergy, 1640–64' (TS in E.R.O. Libr.), 19–20.
165. D.N.B. s. vv. Gouldman, Francis, and Pearson, John.
168. See plate facing p. 49. This account is based on R.C.H.M. Essex, iv. 140–1; Pevsner, Essex (1965), 359; G. Buckler, Churches of Essex (1856); W. Palin, More about Stifford; Thorne, Environs Lond. 457–8.
169. Perhaps by the terms of Lady (Elizabeth) Bruyn's will of 1471: Prob. 11/6 (P.C.C.: 2 Wattys).
171. Guildhall MS. 9531, f. 123(69); cf. E.R.O., D/AEM 1/5.
172. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1657–8, 319; E.R. xxxii. 13; xxxvii. 166; xxxix. 204; E.R.O., Q/SO 1, p. 240a. Morant, Essex, i. 101 follows Salmon, Essex, 280 in reporting the spire struck by lightning in 1638. This is apparently a confusion with Upminster: see below, p. 158.
173. E.A.T. N.S. xxi. 104.
174. E. F. L. Brown, S. Ockendon Parish Church, citing 'Old Church records'.
175. E.R.O., D/AEM 1/5, 2/9; for Armstrong at Cranham and N. Ockendon, see pp. 108, 115.
176. Palin, More about Stifford, 107; Ch. Chests Essex, 190–2.
177. E.A.T. N.S. ii. 187.
178. Ch. Bells Essex, 350.
179. Ch. Plate Essex, 28/9; Palin, op. cit., 107.
180. E.R. liv. 108, 139; Tudor Royal Proclams. ed. Hughes & Larkin, i. 302.
181. E.R.O., Q/SR 206/117, 325/54, 328/40, 356/26, 428/99, 432/4, 177, 437/25; Q/SBa 5; Essex Recusant, i. 29; iii. 83; iv. 16–17, 24, 71–2, 113, 115; v. 29; vi. 92; vii. 37.
182. Essex Recusant, ii. 24; Guildhall MS. 9557.
183. Brentwood Dioc. Yr. Bk. (1952), 29, 59; G.R.O. Worship Reg. nos. 64183 (cancelled 1961), 68281.
184. E.R.O., D/NC 9/1 (Essex Cong. Union Cttee. Mins. 1798–1807); R. Burls, Brief Review of the … Essex Cong. Union, 20.
185. G.R.O. Worship Returns, London Dioc. Essex and Herts. Commissary, no. 131.
187. E.R.O., D/NC 9/1; G.R.O. Worship Returns, London dioc. Essex and Herts. comm. nos. 163, 183.
188. S. D. Challis and J. W. Scamell, Hist. S. Ockendon Cong. Ch. 10, f. p. 18.
189. Ibid. 3; H.O. 129/7/198; Congr. Yr. Bk. (1851), 212.
190. E.R.O., Q/CR 3/2/1, 3/1/202.
191. Essex Congr. Union Reps. (1852) 7, (1858) 13, (1882) 24; I. G. Sparkes, Hist. Thurrock, 25.
192. W. Palin, More about Stifford, 102–3, 109.
193. Grays and Til. Gaz. 8 Apr. 1960.
195. G.R.O. Worship Reg. nos. 15341 (amended 1964, cancelled 1965), 70136 (replacing 15341).
196. Essex Congr. Union Rep. (1963, 1964); Essex & Thurrock Gaz. 8 Apr. 1960, 3 Mar. 1961. The old church still (1975) survives, as a joinery works.
198. Utd. Ref. Ch. Yr. Bk. (1975), 111.
199. G.R.O. Worship Returns, Lond. Dioc., Bps. Ct. no. 724.
200. Unless otherwise stated this account is based on: E. Barrett, The Lamp still Burns, 28–30, illus. f. p. 32.
201. H.O. 129/7/198; cf. White's Dir. Essex (1848), 194.
203. Wesleyan Chapel Cttee. Reps. (1856–7, 1890–1).
204. G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 66242.
205. Thurrock Official Guide (1971).
206. G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 72710.
208. S.P.C.K. Reports (1714, 1724).
211. E.R.O., D/P 75/28/9; D/P 30/28/19; Returns Educ. Poor, H.C. 224, p. 264 (1819), ix(1).
213. Nat. Soc. Church Schs. Enquiry 1846–7.
214. Ed. 49/2205; E.R.O., D/NC 9/1; S. D. Challis and J. W. Scamell, Hist. S. Ockendon Cong. Ch., 20–22; see above, p. 120.
215. Rep. Educ. Cttee. of Council, 1872–3 [C.812] p. 409, H.C. (1873), xxiv; Ed. 21/5348.
216. Ed. 21/5348; Ed. 49/2205.
217. Ed. 49/2205; Kelly's Dir. Essex (1870, 1882); E.R.O., D/DBe Q11; O.S. Map 6", Essex, LXXV (surv. 1865–6).
218. Reps. Educ. Cttee. of Council, 1866–7 , p. 571; H.C. (1867), xxii; 1871–2 [C.601], p. 259, H.C. (1872), xxii; 1875–6 [C. 1513–1], p. 533, H.C. (1876), xxiii; 1880–1 [C.2948–1], p. 579, H.C. (1881), xxxii.
219. Ed. 21/5348; Kelly's Dir. Essex (1882).
220. Return of Schs. 1893 [C.7529], p. 174, H.C. (1894), lxv.
222. E.R.O., D/DBe Q11; E.R.O., C/TE 209; Ed. 21/5348.
224. Inf. from Essex Educ. Dept.
225. E.R.O., C/ME 45, p. 15; C/ME 46, p. 543.
226. E.R.O., C/ME 51, p. 470.
227. O.S. Map 6", TQ 58 SE. (1967).
228. Educ. in Essex (1952–6), 20.
229. E.R.O., C/ME 57, p. 806; C/ME 58, p. 495.
230. Reader's Digest, Nov. 1975, 223–4.
231. Educ. in Essex (1952–6), 21. The school is named after the Barrett-Lennard family of Aveley.
232. E.R.O., C/ME 57, p. 806; C/ME 59, pp. 195, 200; C/ME 60, p. 451.
233. Inf. from Essex Educ. Dept.; O.S. Map 6", Essex, LXXXIII (surv. 1863–6); Shaw and Bonnygate (see below) schools are named from the neighbouring Bonnygate Shaw.
234. E.R.O., C/ME 47, pp. 256, 509; Educ. in Essex (1952–6), 21; inf. from Essex Educ. Dept.
235. Inf. from Essex Educ. Dept.
236. E.R.O., C/ME 52, p. 799.
237. Essex Educ. Building Suppl., July 1956, 3; inf. from Essex Educ. Dept.
238. E.R.O., C/ME 52, p. 799.
239. Educ. in Essex (1952–6), 21; O.S. Map 6", TQ 58 SE. (1967).
240. Educ. in Essex (1945–52), 31; Pevsner, Essex, 360.
241. E.R.O., C/ME 64, p. A89; C/ME 65, p. E126; and see St. Cedds school below.
242. Educ. in Essex (1952–6), 31. The school is named after the Barrett-Lennard family of Aveley.
243. E.R.O., C/ME 64, p. A56.
244. Educ. in Essex (1952–6), 32; inf. from Essex Educ. Dept.
245. Essex Educ. Building Suppl., July 1963, 50; Educ. in Essex (1960–4), 23.
246. Inf. from Essex Educ. Dept.
247. E.R.O., C/ME 64, p. A89; and see Courts school above.
248. Educ. in Essex (1960–4), 100; E.R.O., C/ME 58, p. 495; inf. from Essex Educ. Dept.
249. O.S. Map 6", TQ 58 SE. (1967).
250. E.R.O., C/ME 65, pp. D9–10; inf. from Essex Educ. Dept.
252. E.R.O., Sale Cat. B1531; and see below, p. 163.
253. Challis and Scamell, Hist. S. Ockendon Cong. Ch. 22; Returns Elem. Educ., H.C. 201, pp. 112–3 (1871), lv.
254. Char. Com. Files; inf. from Mr. D. A. Pope, Church secretary.

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