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Aldeborough Hatch
Lay at the
southernmost entrance to Hainault Forest. Marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1883, earlier ‘Aldborough
Hacche’ c.1490, ‘Aberryhatche’ 17th century, ‘Abury Hatch’ 1805. It is probably
a manorial name from the ‘Alborgh’ or ‘Albourgh’ family mentioned in 14th
and 15th records, with Old English
- 'a hatch gate' originally
giving access to Hainault Forest. ‘Aberry’ or ‘Abury’ represent the old local
pronunciation of the name. Forest gate held by the ‘Albourgh family'. John
and Stephen Albourgh are referred to in documents of the early fourteenth
century; the family possibly originated in one of the several places called
Albury in Hertfordshire
It was a
manorial estate, with two farms, formed by the Barnes family out of part of Barking Abbey's lands after the Dissolution. The
estate was divided in two in 1668 and descended through a succession of
inheritors and purchasers, and part sold to the
Crown in 1828, which acquired the remainder in 1929 for airport, and old houses sold to City as part
of sale of Hainault Forest. In that
time the
farmhouses were improved and the parish church and schools erected. In the 1930 the estate passed to
Ilford Borough Council and the creep
of suburbia began
Sams Green.
Market garden in the 1860s. Mr.
Walters, Grew turnips, followed by oats, clover, and wheat or rye, the stubble
of which was grazed in time for potatoes or turnips to be planted.
This was one of the entry
points to Hainault Forest. Hatches or gates here, the boundary marked with
hedges and rows of stones.
Aldeburgh Road North
Garden and gazebo of Clock
House, derelict when he wrote in 1952, site of part of the mansion
St.Peter. Under
the Hainault Forest Inclosure Act (1851) land was set aside for the erection of
a church. In 1861 the Commissioners of Woods and Forests agreed to give £1,000
for a building that would take the place of the chapel at Aldborough Hatch,
continue the annual payment of £20 towards the salary of the incumbent. In 1863
the church was built, designed by Arthur
Ashpitel in a 13th style, and built with stone which had previously
formed part of Westminster Bridge. S
Church Hall. Former School, 1867, closed 1912. single-'storey 20th
extensions on each side.
Oaks Lane
Aldeborough Hatch farmhouse
substantial
house in the c18 demolished in the c9
and replaced. 1855-7 by modest successors built by
the Crown, whose badge it wears
Barn at
Aldborough House Farm. Formerly its
chapel and a chapel of ease for the farm labourers perhaps built in 1728 at the same time as the
farmhouse to which it was attached.
Later used as a fowl house but has been converted, extended and over restored. Services were held here until 1863 when St Peter's
Church was opened.
Chapel at Aldenborough Hatch – the
manor belonged in the mid-17th to Edward Kighley who was a
Presbyterian minister preaching to a local population of 200.
Methodist Church. Church now in the former school. 1934.
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