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Great Henny, Essex

Historical Description

Henny, Great, a parish in Essex, on the river Stour, at the boundary with Suffolk, 3 miles S from Sudbury station on the G.E.R. Post town and telegraph office, Sudbury; money order office, Ballingdon. Acreage, 1034; population of the civil parish, 430; of the ecclesiastical, 305. The parish got its present name before the time of Edward the Confessor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross yearly value,, £395. Patron, the Earl of Vernlam. The church stands on an eminence with a fine prospect, and has a tower and spire.

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

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


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

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online:

DistrictBraintree
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCO10
Post TownSudbury

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