| Before 1066 |
Manor of Wix already in existence. Owned by Queen
Editha (Edith) wife of King Edward the Confessor
|
| 1066 |
Domesday Book describes Wix (Wica) as a manor of 4
hides owned by Walter the Deacon. (1 hide = the area of land
which could be ploughed in a year using one plough and a
team of oxen.)
|
| c. 1125 |
Walter Mascherell, his brother Alexander de Wix and sister Edith
founded the Priory of St. Mary, Wix. They were the children of
Walter the Deacon.
|
| c. 1145 |
Alexander de Wix gave the Priory one third of the manor of Wix.
This was later to become the Pond Hall estate.
|
| c. 1150 |
The Wix Manor house (later to be known as the Manor of Park
Hall) built on land which is now part of Wix Lodge Farm.
|
| c. 1175 |
Gilbert Carbonel became first lord of Carbonels Manor now known
as Carbonells Farm, Spinnells Lane, Wix.
|
| c. 1180 |
King Henry II gave permission for Wix Irriory to hold an annual 3
day fair on the eve, feast, and morrow of Michaelmas. Still popular
in the 19th century.
|
| c.1200 |
The Wix Manor house built on a moated site in a field, which on the
Wix Tithe Map of 1837, was called Moat Field.
|
| 1204 |
King John granted Wix a weekly Tuesday market.
|
| c 1250 |
A deer park of some 400 acres created as part of the Wix Manor
estate (hence the name Park Hall). It covered an area now known
as Wix Lodge Farm and The Dairy House Farm.
|
| 1331 |
The Peasants Revolt. The Villagers attacked the priory and burnt
many of the rent documents pertaining to their land holdings.
|
| 1525 |
The priory suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey in order to raise funds
for building a college at Oxford and a grammar school with a chapel
attached at Ipswich.
|
| 1556 |
John Routh a Wix farm labourer burned to death with 12 others at
Stratford Le Bow for their Protestant faith.
|
| c. 1565 |
The Vesey family built the present Abbey Farm house next to the
church.
|
| c. 1650 |
Park Hall Manor house rebuilt by the Vesey family on a site to
the north of Colchester Road, Wix, just behind the present school.
|
| 1725 |
Protestant dissenters built a meeting house in Wix (location
unknown at present).
|
| 1725 |
John Garnham of Wix applied for a licence to use his house as a
place of worship for Presbyterians (Protestant dissenters).
|
| 1731 |
Robert Clark of Clays Farm Wix left £5 per year in his will for the
parson to teach up to 10 poor children of the village to read and
write. This became known as Clark's Charity and is still in
existence.
|
| 1744 |
Wix church rebuilt and dedicated to St.Michael.
|
| 1767 |
A beer house called The Cock mentioned. James Starling landlord.
This is now a cottage in Colchester Road, Wix, until recently called
Shamrock.
|
| 1767 |
John Thompson mentioned as landlord of the White Hart public house.
|
| 1800 |
First mention of a schoolhouse at Wix Green, part of a house now
known as Cobblers.
|
| 1810 |
First mention of the Wagon and Horses public house. Benjamin
Stevens, landlord.
|
| 1823 |
Isaac Everett built an Independent (Congregational) meeting house
at Wix Lodge Farm.
|
| 1825 |
The Cock and White Hart pubs reported by the Wix Constable for "keeping an unruly house".
|
| 1831 |
The Wix rate payers were issued with a court writ for refusing to
elect churchwardens.
|
| 1832 |
Two churchwardens elected!
|
| 1837 |
Geo Paskell and Son, timber merchants and builders established.
|
| 1841 |
James Baker mentioned as first landlord of the Royal Oak beer
house now Oak Cottage, opposite the present Post Office.
|
| 1842 |
A Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built in Harwich Road, Wix.
The building still exists as commercial premises.
|
| 1842 |
The National Church of England School built in Harwich Road.
|
| 1848 |
Mary May who lived at Wix was hanged at Chelmsford on a
scaffold above the entrance of the jail for poisoning William
Constable (alias Watts), her half brother, with arsenic.
|
| 1859 |
Wix Post Office mentioned in Kelly's Directory. Mary Baker Post
Mistress.
|
| 1869 |
Churchyard enlarged by 40 perches.
|
| 1872 |
A new Wesleyan School built in 1872 close by the National
Wix School.
|
| 1880 |
A Primitive Methodist chapel erected almost opposite Spring Farm,
Colchester Road, Wix. Demolished in 1960s.
|
| 1888 |
Wix Church restored and re-seated.
|
| 1905 |
Churchyard enlarged by a further 2 roods and 14 perches,
(1 acre = 4sq.roods)
|
| 1919 |
Brothers Dick and Eustace Rooks established Hooks Brothers
haulage and carrier service.
|
| 1920 |
War Memorial univeiled at Wix Green on 13th March 1920.
|
| 1925 |
Roy Everson established Eversons Coaches in Rarwich Road, Wix.
|
| 1928 |
Wix Village Hall opened 16th February 1928.
|
| 1935 |
New United Methodist Church opened on 4th September 1935,
uniting the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists.
|
| 1935 |
The present Wix County Primary School (then known as the Wix
Junior Council School) opened on 5th January 1931 replacing
both the National and Wesleyan Schools.
|
| 1939 |
At the outbreak of World War 2 Roger Paskell of Geo. Paskell &
Son formed the Wix Utility Party consisting of an auxiliary fire
service and a rescue party. Eustace Hooks of E.O. Hooks
formed the Wix Home Guard.
|
| c. 1955 |
Park Hall Manor house finally demolished.
|
| 1958 |
Miss Edna Moore retires after 30 years as headmistress of
Wix School.
|
| 1961 |
Stone coffin found in the grounds of Wix Abbey Farm.
|
| 1975 |
An attempt was made to steal the bell from the bell cage in the
churchyard. A new cage was built, free of charge, by
Mr. Roger Paskell.
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