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Essex Road & York Road
See also Pightles Estate

Indenture 11th April 1896 between Fred Knight and Charles Luther Bradfield, shoe manufacturers of the one part (vendors) and Charles Rogers of Yelden brickmaker (purchaser)....

All those two plots of land or ground situate in and having  frontage of 35 feet or thereabouts to a certain new Road or Street called or intended to be called Oswald Street in Rushden aforesaid Which said plot of land or ground contain in area 356 square yards or thereabouts to the same little more or less with the abuttals and boundaries thereof more particularly delineated and described in the map drawn on the fourth page of these presents and thereon coloured pink and numbered 124 and 125 Which said plots of land or ground form part of a Building Estate belonging to the Vendors known as the Pightles Estate and which Estate was by an Indenture dated the Twenty first day of July One thousand eight hundred and ninety four and made between Mary Manton of the one part and Vendors of the other part conveyed to the Vendors as Tenants in common in fee simple part whereof was formerly Copyhold of the Manor of Rushden but by an Indenture dated the Nineteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and ninety four and made between The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty of the one part and the said Mary Manton of the other part was enfranchised and made freehold Together also with the right to use the common drain or drains laid or to be laid in or under the said Road or Roads....

Copied from a sale document dated 1896
layout of part of Pightles Estate
Plan of York Road and Essex Road

Rushden Argus, Friday 22nd April 1898, transcribed by Kay Collins








SEVERAL PLOTS OF FREEHOLD

Building Land as shown below, and which formed part of the portion of the above salubrious Estate, are

Offered for Sale

Undoubtedly this is the finest and most superb position for Residential purposes available in Rushden, being surrounded on all hands by first-class property. No expense of Roads or paving, and the Land, being as level as a table, the cost of Building is reduced to a minimum.

For Particulars, apply to
EBENEZER WRIGHTON










Clifton Ville A D 1898

'Cliftonville' was built in 1898 and is No.2 Essex Road. It and stands at the corner with Park Road.

It was firstly the home of Frederick Corby, a currier, and later Charles Cross, proprietor of the Rushden Echo lived there.

In 2010 it is a residental home with a large extension behind, in Park Road, and still carries the name 'Cliftonville'.

c1990
Clifton-Ville A D 1898
Extension being built c1990

No. 15 Essex Road - home of H.E. Bates from 1914 to 1922. Built by his grandfather in 1900, H.E.'s mother lived here until the 1980s.
Known as Manton Cottage.


Blue Plaque (no.6)

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