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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TOLLESBURY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Maldon district, Essex. The village stands on a creek of the Blackwater, 7 miles E by N of Maldon r. station; carries on extensive oyster-dredging; and has a post-office under Kelvedon, and a fair on the last Thursday and Friday of June. The parish includes part of Tiptree-Heath chapelry; and comprises 7,918 acres of land, and 2,720 of water. Real property, £8,577; of which £219 are in fisheries. Pop. in 1851, 1,193; in 1861, 1,462. Houses, 301. The property is divided among a few. Much of the land is saline pasture. There is a coastguard station. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £539.* Patrons, Trustees. The church is partly ancient, partly modern. There are an Independent chapel, rebuilt in 1865, a national school, and charities £6.—The sub-district contains 5 parishes. Acres, 21,156. Pop., 3,634. Houses, 774.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Tollesbury AP/CP Tollesbury SubD Maldon RegD/PLU Essex AncC |
| Place: | Tollesbury |
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