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Brightlingsea  Essex

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brightlingsea like this:

BRIGHTLINGSEA, a village and a parish in Lexden district, Essex. The village stands on the estuary of the Colne, opposite Mersea island, at a terminus of the Tendring Hundred railway, 8 miles SE by S of Colchester; is a sub-port to Colchester, and a member of the cinque port of Sandwich; and has a post office‡ under Colchester, and a recently erected temperance hall. ...


Fairs are held on the first Thursday of June and 15 Oct.; and a large trade is carried on in the fishing of sprats and oysters. The parish comprises 3,560 acres; of which 470 are water. Real property, £7,081. Pop., 2,585. Houses, 589. The property is sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £213.* Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church has a tower nearly 100 feet high, serving as a sea-mark; and contains brasses of a merchant, a nun, and W. Beriffe, 1579. There are a chapel of ease in Gothic architecture, and chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Swedenborgiaus.

Brightlingsea through time

Brightlingsea is now part of Tendring district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tendring has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Brightlingsea itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Brightlingsea, in Tendring and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/894

Date accessed: 19th March 2024


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