A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
STEEPLE, a parish, with S. village and Stanesgate hamlet, in Maldon district, Essex; on the Blackwater estuary, 6 miles SE of Maldon r. station. It has fairs on Whit-Monday and the Wednesday after Michaelmas. Post town, Southminster, under Maldon. Acres, 3,434; of which 630 are water. Real property, £3,060. Pop., 559. Houses, 114. Most of the property belongs to Bartholomew's hospital. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £165.* Patron, alternately Lord Fitzwalter and T. and F. Hunt, Esqs., and Miss Hunt. The church is plain; and there are an Independent chapel and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Steeple AP/CP Essex AncC |
| Place: | Steeple |
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