Thorpe le Soken, Essex
Historical Description
Thorpe-le-Soken, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands on the road from Colchester to Walton-on-the-Naze, 6 miles N from Clacton-on-Sea, and 11 SW from Harwich. It has a station on the Tendring Hundred branch of the G.E.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Colchester. The parish is a seat of petty sessions. Acreage, 3318; population, 1099. The manor of the Three Sokens belongs to the Chapman family. Thorpe Hall is a chief residence. There are some extensive mailings. In the village there is a workmen's institute and coffee tavern. There were formerly two annual fairs in May and September, but these have been discontinued. The living is a vicarage— in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £308 with residence. The church is a building of red brick and rubble stone, consisting of chancel with organ chamber and N aisle, nave, aisles, N porch, and an embattled western tower. It has some ancient and interesting tombs and monuments, and some good stained windows. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.
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 | Thorpe-Le-Soken St. Mary | |
Hundred | Tendring | |
Poor Law union | Tendring |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thorpe le Soken from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thorpe-Le-Soken (St. Mary))
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 Thorpe le Soken 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: