Little Horkesley, Essex
Historical Description
Horkesley, Little, a parish in Essex, contiguous to the SW side of Great Horkesley, and 4 miles N from Colchester station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Colchester; money, order office. Great Horkesley; telegraph office, Nay-land. Acreage, 1026; population of the civil parish, 171; of the ecclesiastical, 190. Horkesley Hall is a spacious mansion in the Classic style, standing in beautiful grounds, and "Westwood House is a fine mansion in the Tudor style, standing in a park of 65 acres. A Cluniac priory, a cell to Thetford monastery, was founded here in the time of Henry I., by Robert Fitzgodebold, and was suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £70. The church stands high, is ancient and has a tower and five bells, and contains interesting brasses and wooden effigies of Crusaders. It was restored in 1878 at considerable cost, a vestry and organ chamber being added at the same time. There is a small charity.
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 | Little Horksley St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Lexden | |
Poor Law union | Lexden and Winstree |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Little Horkesley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horksley, Little (St. Peter and St. Paul))
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 Little Horkesley 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: