Tolleshunt Knights, Essex

Historical Description

Tolleshunt Knights, a scattered parish in Essex, 5 miles SE from Kelvedon station on the G.E.R. main line, and 8 SE from Witham. Post town, Witham; money order and telegraph office, Tiptree Heath. Acreage, 2246; population of the civil parish, 480; of the ecclesiastical, 197. The manor with most of the land belongs to the Abdy family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £ 230 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church is an edifice of flint and rubble in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and western belfry with shingled spire. There is a Congregational chapel.

Administration

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

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Tolleshunt Knights from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tolleshunt, Knights' (All Saints))

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 Tolleshunt Knights 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:

• Chelmsford Chronicle
• Essex Newsman
• Essex Standard