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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Tey St. Barnabas | |
Hundred | Lexden | |
Poor Law union | Lexden 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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tey, Great (St. Barnabas))
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
Online maps of Great Tey are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: