In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Marks Tey like this:
MARKS-TEY, a parish in Lexden district, Essex; on the Great Eastern railway, at the junction of the line forking to Sudbury and to Halstead, 5 miles W of Colchester. It has a station at the railway junction, and a post office under Colchester. Acres, 1,214. Real property, £2,120. Pop. in 1851,437; in 1861,396. Houses, 82. The property is subdivided. Marks-Tey Hall was an ancient moated mansion, and is now a farm-house. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £234. * Patron, Balliol College, Oxford. The church is good.
Marks Tey through time
Marks Tey is now part of Colchester district. Click here for graphs and data of how Colchester has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Marks Tey itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Marks Tey, in Colchester and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6930
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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