Ardleigh

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Ardleigh
The Street, Ardleigh, with the parish church of St Mary The Virgin and the post office in the background.
Ardleigh is located in Essex
Ardleigh
Ardleigh
Location within Essex
Population2,758 (Parish, 2021)[1]
OS grid referenceTM052295
• London55 mi (89 km) NE
Civil parish
  • Ardleigh
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCOLCHESTER
Postcode districtCO7
Dialling code01206
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
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Essex
51°55′37″N 0°58′59″E / 51.9269°N 0.9831°E / 51.9269; 0.9831

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

  1. ↑ "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.)
  2. ↑ Bercaw, Louise Oldham; "Bibliography on Land Utilization 1918-36"; p. 1011
  3. 1 2 "Election Maps". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "Town and Parish Council and Clerks Details". Tendring District Council. Archived from the original on 14 May 2006. Retrieved 23 January 2007.