Greenstead (Colchester), Essex
Historical Description
Greenstead, a parish in the third ward of the borough of Colchester, Essex, on the river Colne, 1 mile S from Colchester. It contains the Hythe station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Colchester; money order and telegraph office, The Hythe (T.S.O.) Area, 1501 acres; population of the civil parish, 868; of the ecclesiastical, 750. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value,, £160 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is very good, and the church of St John the Evangelist also is here. There is also a Baptist chapel, erected in 1885.
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 | Greenstead St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Lexden | |
Poor Law union | Colchester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Greenstead (Colchester) from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Greenstead (St. Andrew))
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 Greenstead (Colchester) 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: