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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.
ThorringtonTHORRINGTON is a village and parish containing 531 souls, and 1930 acres of land, 8 miles S.E. by S. of Colchester, and 2½ miles N. of Brightlingsea. The village is on a commanding eminence, and the parish is bounded on the east by a rivulet which runs southward to Brightlingsea creek. At the Conquest, the manor was given to Odo, Bishop of Bayeaux, and it afterwards passed to the Anesty, Valence, Hastings, and other families. In 1521, it was sold, with about one-third of the soil of the whole parish, to the Executors of Margaret, Countess of Richmond, for the use of St. John's College, Cambridge, to which it still belongs. The principal landowners are W. W. Hawkins, Esq., W. Anston, Esq., Miss Borthwick, Miss Reeve, and several smaller owners, partly copyholders, subject to arbitrary fines. The Church (St. Mary Magdalen) has a nave, chancel, and north aisle, and a tower built of brick and stone, and containing five bells. It was rebuilt or extensively repaired in 1477. The rectory is consolidated with that of Frating, as noticed. The glebe here is 22A. 8R. 7½P., and the tithes have been commuted for £484 per annum. The glebe house is a small cottage. Here is a small Wesleyan Chapel; and a house and garden belonging to the poor, but the donor is unknown. | |
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