Crockleford Heath is part of the village and
civil parish
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of
Ardleigh
Ardleigh is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is situated approximately northeast from the centre of Colchester and northeast from the county town of Chelmsford.
Ardleigh is in the district of Tendring and the parliamentary co ...
in
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
. It is located miles south-west of the village centre.
Crockleford Heath once had its own school, built in about 1832 for the children of agricultural labourers; it later became a
Church of England
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mission chapel.
A
Primitive Methodist
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In the United States, the Primit ...
chapel was opened in Crockleford Heath in 1859.
''The Primitive Methodist Magazine'', 1859, p.560
References
Hamlets in Essex
Tendring
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