Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRATING

FRATING, a parish in Tendring district, Essex; 2 miles ENE of Wivenhoe r. station, and 6 ESE of Colchester. It has a post office under Colchester. Acres, 1, 237. Real property, £3, 373. Pop., 235. Houses, 51. The property is divided among a few. Frating Hall is a principal residence. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Thorington, in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £799.* Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is early English, and very good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Frating AP/CP       Tendring RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place: Frating

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