Ardleigh
| Ardleigh | |
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The Street, Ardleigh, with the parish church of St Mary The Virgin and the post office in the background. | |
Ardleigh Location within Essex | |
| Population | 2,758 (Parish, 2021)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TM052295 |
| • London | 55 mi (89 km) NE |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | COLCHESTER |
| Postcode district | CO7 |
| Dialling code | 01206 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Ardleigh /ˈɑːrdli/ is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) northeast from the centre of Colchester and 26 miles (42 km) northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,758.
History
Ardleigh appears in Domesday Book of 1086, when it is described as a holding of Geoffrey de Mandeville.
The area includes a number of smallholdings founded after the First World War by the Land Settlement Association.[2] Though the Great Eastern Main Line passes close to the village, the railway station closed in November 1967.
Transport and geography
The closest railway station is Manningtree, 3 miles (5 km) northeast. The village is on the A137 road, a route from Colchester to Ipswich, Suffolk. Ardleigh Reservoir is less than 1 mile (1.6 km) to the southwest. The parish includes Crockleford Heath.[3]
Governance
Ardleigh is in the district of Tendring and the parliamentary constituency of Harwich and North Essex. The village has its own Parish Council.[4] It is part of the electoral ward called Ardleigh and Little Bromley.[3]
References
- ^ "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
- ^ Bercaw, Louise Oldham; "Bibliography on Land Utilization 1918-36"; p. 1011
- ^ a b "Election Maps". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
- ^ "Town and Parish Council and Clerks Details". Tendring District Council. Archived from the original on 14 May 2006. Retrieved 23 January 2007.
External links
- Media related to Ardleigh at Wikimedia Commons
- Ardleigh in the Domesday Book
- "St Mary The Virgin's Church, Ardleigh", Essex Churches
- "Ardleigh's Past", Ancestry.com, Free Pages
- Ardleigh Church, St Mary's