Shelley, Essex
Shelley | ||
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Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | ONGAR | |
Postcode district | CM5 | |
Police | Essex | |
Fire | Essex | |
Ambulance | East of England | |
UK Parliament | ||
Shelley is a partly rural village and partly residential conurbation in the
The former civil parish of Shelley focused on the parish church and the manor house of Shelley Hall at the north of the parish, and was bounded at the north by the civil parish of Moreton, the south by the A414 Harlow to Chelmsford Road, the east by the B184 road from Chipping Ongar to Great Dunmow, and the west by the southeast-to-northwest Moreton Road which edges Shelley Common with its Roding tributary of Cripsey Brook.[1][2]
The village church is just west off the B184 Fyfield road, and 900 yards (800 m) north, separated by farm and fields, from the conurbated southern area of Shelley contiguous with the small market town of Chipping Ongar. Shelley is 9 miles (14 km) west from the county town of Chelmsford.
History
In the
Shelley was described in 1848 as "a small parish of scattered houses, between the river Roding and Cripsey Brook, 1½ miles north from Chipping Ongar". At the time, Shelley Hall, 65 yards (60 m) west from today's
Within the church was noted a memorial of inscribed brass with effigy to John Green, who died in 1626, aged 89, and his wife, and sixteen children of whom seven were boys. The children left the manor but produced 111 grandchildren during the life of John Green and his wife. The parish registers date to 1689 for baptisms, 1687 for burials, and 1709 for marriages. Two parish charities were those of Harvey Kimpton who was Lord of the Manor until his death in 1817, and of William Bullock in 1822. The Kimpton charity of £110.5s.2d. gave a three per cent dividend per year, as did the Bullock charity from a bank annuity of £333.6s.8d. Both charities provided for the relief of parish poor, with Bullock's being distributed by the rector on Christmas Day in the form of beef, bread and coal to those of good character. The rector was also responsible for the upkeep of Shelly Bridge over Cripsey Brook on Moreton Road to the south-west of the church.[2][5][6]
Shelley parish was in the
Crops grown in the parish were chiefly wheat, barley, beans, clover, and roots (typically root vegetables such as turnips), these on a soil of marl over a clay subsoil. Shelley parish area in 1848 was 660 acres (2.67 km2); in 1882 was 586 acres (2.37 km2); and in 1894, 1902 and 1914 was 604 acres (2.44 km2). Shelley parish population in 1818 was 175; in 1833 was 163; in 1841 was 209; in 1881 was 200; in 1891 and 1901 was 186; in 1911 was 232, and in 1931 was 386.[5][6][11][12]
Trade directory parish occupations in 1848 listed five farmers, a beer seller, and a plumber. By 1863 there were four farmers, one of whom was a cattle dealer, a tailor, two shoemakers, one of whom ran a beer house, and a 'traveller' (possibly a hawker). In 1874 there were four farmers, presuming one to be at Shelley Hall, and a new listing for the
Until the Second World War Shelley was chiefly a rural parish. However, a small program of council house and prefabricated bungalow building was started before the War on Moreton Road at the south by the then Ongar Rural District Council, which, between 1945 and 1953, planned and developed further housing infill of the southern part of Shelley, between Moreton Road and the A414, of approximately 450 houses, with shops, a community hall and Shelley primary school.[2]
In 1965 Shelley civil parish was abolished and absorbed, with
In 2013 a planning application was presented to Epping Forest District Council and Ongar Town Council by Fyfield Joint Venture,
Community
Shelley is in the Shelley Ward of the Ongar civil parish, under the local authority of Ongar Town Council.[19]
Services and businesses in Shelley include the Fyfield Business and Research Park, The Ongar Academy secondary school, Ongar Leisure Centre, Ongar War Memorial Medical Centre, a branch of Comitti of London clockmakers, and a BP fuel service station, all on the B184 road. Ongar Primary School is adjacent to the A414 in the post-war housing development.
Fyfield Business and Research Park, 350 yards (320 m) to the east of St Peter's Church, provides 23 acres (0.09 km2) and 25 units of laboratory, office, workshop, retail and services space.[19][20] The Park includes a drug development laboratory, a building design consultancy company, an audio-visual & lighting company, building contractors' and surveyors' companies, an oil and gas extraction company, various design and consultancy firms, an E-commerce clothing shop, an Indian food takeaway, a private day nursery, and a screen printing company.[21][22][23]
Other smaller services and shops in Shelley include further takeaways for kebab & pizza and fish & chips, a seafood restaurant, a hair salon, and two small convenience stores (one a Nisa).
Education
In 1936, Essex County Council had established the Ongar County Secondary School in a neo-Georgian building fronting Fyfield Road, Shelley. The school expanded in the 1960s when it became Ongar Comprehensive School, but was closed in 1989. Its buildings were demolished to make way for a new residential development and new youth and adult education centres. Ongar Leisure Centre, a joint use sporting facility, was retained. Secondary school children were then bussed to schools in the surrounding towns, particularly Brentwood and Shenfield. Twenty six years later in September 2015, a new secondary education school called The Ongar Academy, with no historic association to any previous Ongar school apart from being built on part of the site of the earlier Ongar County Secondary School in Shelley, opened adjacent to Ongar Leisure Centre on Fyfield Road.[24]
References
- ^ Vision of Britain
- ^ a b c d "Shelley: Introduction", in A History of the County of Essex, vol 4, Ongar Hundred, ed. W R Powell (London, 1956), pp. 203-204. British History Online. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ "Shelley", Open Domesday, University of Hull. Retrieved 4 March 2018
- ^ "Shelley", Domesday Book Online. Retrieved 4 March 2018
- ^ a b c d e White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Essex 1848 / 1863
- ^ a b c d e f Kelly's Directory of Essex 1882 p.258 / 1894 p.304 / 1902 p.357 / 1914 p.510 / 1933 p.437
- ^ Historic England. "Shelley Hall (1337516)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ Historic England. "Monument no. 372730 (372730)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ "Shelley: Church", in A History of the County of Essex vol 4, Ongar Hundred, ed. W R Powell (London, 1956), pp. 206-208. British History Online. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Peter (1124048)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ a b Digest of Parochial Returns Select Committee on Education of the Poor (1818)
- ^ a b House of Commons papers, volume 41, in Abstract of Education Returns (1833)
- ^ Post Office Directory of Essex 1874
- ^ Fyfield Joint Venture, Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ Davis, Barnaby, "Plans for 105 homes in Ongar at Fyfield Business Park", The Guardian 26 January 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ "Agenda Item Number 4" Epping Forest District Council. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ "Planning and Environment Committee meeting 5 June 2014", Ongar Town Council, 29 May 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ "EPF/3006/14 - Fyfield Business and Research Park, Fyfield Road, Chipping Ongar", Epping Forest District Council, District Development Management Committee, 10 June 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ a b "Fyfield Business And Research Park - Ongar", Get The Data. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ "Fyfield Business and Research Park, Ongar, Essex", Quadrant Estates. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ "Businesses in CM5 0GN", 192.com. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ "Fyfield Business And Research Park Ltd", Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ "26 companies registered address CM5 0GN", Endole.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- ^ Flaig, Joseph; "Ongar Academy welcomes first ever set of year seven pupils", The Guardian, 8 September 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2018
External links
- Media related to Shelley, Essex at Wikimedia Commons
- "Shelley: Church", in A History of the County of Essex, vol 4, Ongar Hundred, ed. W R Powell (London, 1956), pp. 206–208. British History Online. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- Ongar Primary School in Shelley. Retrieved 2 March 2018
- The Ongar Academy secondary school in Shelley. Retrieved 2 March 2018