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Great Tey, Essex

Historical Description

Tey, Great, a village and a parish in Essex, 2½ miles NW of Marks Tey Junction station on the G.E.R., and 3½ NE of Coggeshall. There is a post office under Kelvedon (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Marks Tey. Acreage, 2798; population, 661. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. A pleasure fair is held on Trinity Monday and Tuesday. The manor belonged to Algar, Earl of Mercia, and passed to Queen Maud, the Fitzwalters, the Audleys, and others. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £213 "with residence. The sinecure rectory, of the gross value of £681, passed into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on the death of the last rector. The church, which stands on an eminence, is an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, transepts, and a Norman tower.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyEssex 
Ecclesiastical parishTey St. Barnabas 
HundredLexden 
Poor Law unionLexden and Winstree 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great Tey from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.

The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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DistrictColchester
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCO6
Post TownColchester

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