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Bellvue or Belle Vue Cottage is mentioned in the will of Thomas Jenner Spitty and also in a Sale Catalogue of The Spitty Estates in 1917 (ERO documents T/G276/3 &  D/DSu/E4.)

In his will the property is described as :-
"my copyhold dwelling house in the Parish of Mountnessing in the said County of Essex called Belle Vue and the lands containing seventeen acres one rood and thrity five perches or thereabouts which together with the said house were bought by me as to part from Skeldings trustees and as to the rest I think from Abraham Offin."