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Oakley, Great (All Saints)

OAKLEY, GREAT (All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Tendring, N. division of Essex, 6 miles (S.) from Ipswich; containing 1145 inhabitants. The parish is situated near an inlet of the sea, opposite Pewit Island, and comprises by computation 2800 acres, of which 2483 are arable, and about 100 nearly equally divided between woodland and pasture. It is celebrated as the scene of a sanguinary conflict between Ethelwolf and the Danes, and had once a castle, of which a small portion of the keep, and traces of the moat, are still discernible. A fair is held on the 25th of April. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £23, and in the patronage of St. John's College, Cambridge: the tithes have been commuted for £900, and there is a glebe of 57 acres. The church, a small edifice, had a steeple of flint, which, becoming ruinous, was rebuilt. Here are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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