Ardleigh
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Ardleigh Template:IPAc-en is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is situated approximately Template:Convert northeast from the centre of Colchester and Template:Convert northeast from the county town of Chelmsford.
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.[1] 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, Template:Convert northeast. The village is on the A137 road, a route from Colchester to Ipswich, Suffolk. Ardleigh Reservoir is less than Template:Convert to the southwest.
Governance and population
Ardleigh is in the district of Tendring and the parliamentary constituency of Harwich and North Essex. The village has its own Parish Council.[2] It is part of the electoral ward called Ardleigh and Little Bromley, and includes the area known as Crockleford Heath. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 2,311,[3] growing from a population of 2081 recorded in the 2001 census.[4]