Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MILTON

MILTON, a hamlet in Prittlewell parish, Essex; close to Southend. Real property, £7,650; of which £570 are in fisheries. It was anciently a separate parish; but ceased to be so in consequence of part of it being swallowed up by the sea. Its church continued to be visible at low-water mark in the last century.


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

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Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Essex AncC
Place: Milton

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