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Ardleigh Alresford Beaumont cum Moze Bentley, Great Bentley, Little Bradfield Brightlingsea Bromley, Great Bromley, Little Clacton, Great Clacton, Little Dovercourt Elmstead Frating Frinton Harwich Holland, Great Holland, Little Kirby, Le Soken Lawford Manningtree Mistley Oakley, Great Oakley, Little Osyth, St Ramsey Tendring Thorpe Le Soken Thorrington Walton On Naze Weeley Wix Wrabness |
The following are extracts from the History, Gazetteer,
and Directory of the County of Essex by William White
published in 1848.
FratingFRATING, 6 miles E.S.E. of Colchester, is a pleasant village and parish, containing 271 souls, and 1233 acres of land, bounded on the east and west by two rivulets, which run to the creeks of Arlesford and Brightlingsea. A large portion of it is in the manors of Great Bromley, Moverons, and Wix, and the rest is in the manor of Frating Hall, which belongs to Caius College, Cambridge. The other principal landowners are P. Thompson, J. Boghurst, W. Caldecott, Miss Adams, R. Bacon, W. Cant, and B. Brown Esq. Th parish is called Fretingham in the Domesday Book, and part of it was held of the Honor of Tutbury, by the Ferrers family. The Church is a small structure in the early English style, and a new window has recently been inserted at the east end. The rectory valued in K.B. at £10, and in 1831, at £809, with that of Thorrington annexed to it, is in the patronage of St. John's College, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev Rd. Duffield. B.D. who was appointed in 1832, and has a large and hansome Rectory House, of white brick, encompassed by beautiful pleasure grounds, laid out and planted with great taste. The advowson was purchased by St. John's College, about 1744. The glebe is 41A., and the tithes of Frating have been commuted for £345 per annum. The poor parishioners have a house given by an unknown donor, and several garden plots, enclosed from the waste many years ago. POST OFFICE at R. Almond's :- Letters desp. by Colchester mail cart at 7 evening. | |
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