TEY (Great), a parish in Lexden district, Essex; 2¼ miles NW of Marks-Tey Junction r. station, and 3½ NE of Coggeshall. It has a post-office under Kelvedon, and a fair on Trinity Monday. Acres, 2,503. Real property, £4,837. Pop., 818. Houses, 166. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to Algar, Earl of Mercia; and passed to Queen Maud, the Fitzwalters, the Audleys, and others. The living is twofold, a vicarage and a sinecure rectory, in the diocese of Rochester. Value of the vicarage, £215; of the rectory, with Pontes-bright, £790.* Patron of both, the Rev. W. Walsh. The church is ancient but good. Charities, £20.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))