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COLNE (Earls, or Great), a village and a parish in Halstead district, Essex. The village stands on the river Colne, adjacent to the Colne Valley and Halstead railway, ¾ of a mile SW of Colne r. station, and 3¼ SE by E of Halstead; and it has a post office, ‡ of the name of Earls-Colne, under Halstead, and a fair on 25 March. The parish comprises 2, 959 acres. Real property, £6, 048. Pop., 1, 540. Houses, 334. The property is subdivided. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Abingdon, was founded here, in the time of Henry I., by Aubrey de Vere; and given, at the dissolution, to the Earl of Oxford. A seat of the Earls of Oxford, called Hall Place, with a park of 700 acres, also was here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £494. Patron, H. H. Carwardine, Esq. The church was built in 1532; has a tower, partly of flint; and contains monuments of the De Veres, removed to it from the priory. There are chapels for Baptists and Quakers, a neat recent institute with reading room , a free grammar-school, two other public schools, and six alms-houses.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Earls Colne CP/AP Halstead RegD/PLU Essex AncC |
| Place names: | COLNE | COLNE EARLS | COLNE EARLS OR GREAT | COLNE GREAT | EARLS COLNE | GREAT COLNE |
| Place: | Earls Colne |
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