Place:


Little Horkesley  Essex

 

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

HORKSLEY (LITTLE), a parish in Lexden district, Essex; contiguous to the SW side of Great Horksley, and 4 miles E of Bures r. station. Post town, Great Horksley, under Colchester. Acres, 1, 029. Real property, £2, 919. Pop., 253. Houses, 54. The property is divided among a few. Horksley Hall is the seat of Mrs. ...


Warren. A Cluniac priory, a cell to Thetford monastery, was founded here, in the time of Henry I., by Robert Fitzgodebold; and was suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £69. Patron, Mrs. Warren. The church stands high; is ancient and tolerable; has a tower; and contains interesting brasses and wooden effigies of Crusaders.

Little Horkesley through time

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

How to reference this page:

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6803

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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