The Goldhanger property sale of 1906
The “sale of the century” took place in 1906 when much of the Revd. C B Leigh's estate was sold off in an auction of 20 properties and 5 arable field “lots” at the Cups Hotel in Colchester in June 1906. The event was just one year before the Revd. Leigh died and some thirteen years after he had retired as rector of St. Peters Church.
The catalogue contained 12 pages with this front cover...						Select any of the images on this webpage to enlarge and zoom in.
...and included two detailed pull-out coloured maps:
area map					Village map
Select either map to enlarge and zoom in the lot numbers have been enlarges on these digital versions to make them more readable and more easily associated with the catalogue pages below the two maps also identify who owns all the surrounding lands more local maps are at... Maps from the past
All the lots from the catalogue are presented below with appropriate links and period photos (not in the brochure)...
		Lot 1 Highams and Longwick Farms see also... Highams and Longwick farms
Highams Farmhouse		Longwick Farmhouse
Lot 2 Follyfaunts Farmhouse and Farm see also... Follyfaunts Farm
Follyfaunts House		Follyfaunts farmyard
		Lot 3 Arable land at Tolleshunt Major “in the occupation of the Bunting family”
Lot 4 The Old Rectory and Farm see also... The Old Rectory and Charles Page
The Old Rectory in about 1900				The Old Rectory more recently
Lot 5 land at the corner of Church St and Maldon Rd. see... Charles Page			Lot 6 Land along the Little Totham Rd. “Forming part of Follyfaunts Farm”
Lot 7 Land along the Little Totham Rd.
			Lots 8 and 9 Lot 8 is now part of Bounds Farm Lot 9 is the former Fish St. allotments
			Lot 10 This property on the north side of Head St. was purchased by the Revd. Garnder and became the Parsonage, home to many of the village curates. “The Limes” name was transfered across the road to the timber frame biulding immediatly opposite. After the last curate left the village it was re-named “The Old Parsonage”.
The Limes in the early 1900s showing the lime trees			Postcard scene of the Parsonage in the 1930s
Lot 11 The former poorhouses, occupied in 1906 by the policeman and school headmistress... The cottages are now private houses
			Lot 12 The cottages were demolished in the 1950s
Lot 13 The cottages were demolished in the 1950s
see... Goldhanger Lost - Blacksmiths			Lot 14 The two cottages were replaced with one house in the 1950s. The Blacksmith’s shop was replaced with two houses in the 1980s.
Lot 15 “Tayspils” has been one cottage for many years
see...The Pit Cottages			Lot 16 Later known as the “Pit Cottages” they were demolished in the 1960s (no photos have ever been found)
Lot 17 Rectory cottage was purchased by the Revd Gardner and for many years provided accommodation for his faithful manservant John Buckingham.
Lot 18 in the catalogue and in the sale was Brook house Farm which was, and still is, in Tolleshunt D’arcy parish. It is not shown on the maps that were part of the catalogue.
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