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Witham
Witham () is a town and civil parish in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. In the 2011 census, it had a population of 25,353. It is twinned with the town of Waldbröl, Germany. Witham stands on the Roman road between the cities of Chelmsford ( south-west) and Colchester ( north-east). The River Brain runs through the town and joins the River Blackwater on the outskirts. History Early history Excavations by Essex County Council Field Archaeological unit at the recent Maltings Lane development discovered evidence of Neolithic occupation at Witham, including human remains and several trackways across ancient marsh. Excavations of the Witham Lodge (Ivy Chimneys) area of the town in the 1970s unveiled remains of a Roman temple as well as a pottery kiln. This would have been alongside the main Roman road from Colchester to London and used as a stopover point on the long journey. Another notable find during the excavation was a votive offering pool in the gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Witham is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliamentary constituency in Essex represented by Dame Priti Patel in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation. She is a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative who was Home Secretary from 24 July 2019 until her resignation on 5 September 2022 following the announcement of the results of the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, Conservative Party leadership contest. Constituency profile Witham is one of the safest Conservative seats in the country. The town of Witham within it is the only area of real Labour strength in the region, being represented by one District Councillor alongside seven Conservative Councillors. Witham itself is an industrial town, on the Great Eastern main line railway from London to Norwich, with some heavy industry and London commuter belt residential areas – the strength of the Labour vote here wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witham Town Hall
Witham Town Hall is a municipal building in Newland Street, Witham, Essex, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Witham Town Council, is a Grade II listed building. History The building was originally built as a two-storey timber framed coaching inn which became known as "The George" and was built to accommodate stagecoach passengers travelling between London and Colchester in the 15th century. The design involved a first floor which jettied out across the pavement: the building continued to operate as a public house until the 1790s. The structure was remodelled in the neoclassical style in around 1800: the existing frame was completely encased in red brick with a new façade at that time. The new design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Newland Street; the central bay, which slightly projected forward, featured a portico with Tuscan order columns and pilasters supporting a cornice and an entablature. The outer bays on the ground flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maldon, Essex
Maldon (, locally ) is a town and civil parish on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, England. It is the seat of the Maldon District and starting point of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation. It is known for Maldon Sea Salt which is produced in the area. In 2011 the parish had a population of 14,220 and the district had a population of 61,700. History Early and medieval history The place-name ''Maldon'' is first attested in 913 in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', where it appears as ''Maeldun''. Maldon's name comes from ''mǣl'', meaning 'monument or cross', and ''dūn'' meaning 'hill', so translates as 'monument hill'. East Saxons settled the area in the 5th century and the area to the south is still known as the Dengie Peninsula after the Dæningas. It became a significant Anglo-Saxon England, Saxon port with a hythe or quayside and artisan quarters. Evidence of imported pottery from this period has been found in archaeological digs. From 958 there was a royal mint issuing coi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braintree (district)
Braintree District is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Essex, England. The district is named after the town of Braintree, Essex, Braintree, where the council is based. The district also includes the towns of Halstead and Witham and surrounding rural areas. The neighbouring districts are City of Colchester, Colchester, Maldon District, Maldon, City of Chelmsford, Chelmsford, Uttlesford, South Cambridgeshire, West Suffolk District, West Suffolk, and Babergh District, Babergh. History The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 as one of 14 districts within Essex. The new district covered the area of five former districts, which were all abolished at the same time: *Braintree and Bocking Urban district (England and Wales), Urban District *Braintree Rural District *Halstead Rural District *Halstead Urban District *Witham Urban District The new district was named Braintree, after the area's largest town. Governance Braintree D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Southcote (died 1585)
Sir John Southcote (1510/11–1585) was an English judge and politician. Life He was the second son of William Southcote and his wife Alice Tregonnell, and grandson of Nicholas Southcote of Chudleigh, Devon. He was a member of the Middle Temple, where he was autumn reader in 1556, and again on his call to the degree of serjeant-at-law, April 1559. In 1553 he sat in Parliament for Lewes, and then Steyning. Southcote was made justice of the Queen's Bench on 10 February 1563. He sat with Chief-justice Sir Robert Catlin on the trial (9 February 1572) of Robert Hickford, a retainer of the Duke of Norfolk, indicted for adhering to the queen's enemies; and as assessor to the peers on the trial of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk. He took part in the conference of November–December 1577 on the legal method of dealing with recusants. In May 1584 Southcote retired and was succeeded by John Clench. He died on 18 April 1585. Family With his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Robin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southcott Family
Southcott is a surname of an ancient and prominent family from the English counties of Devon and Cornwall. History The surname Southcott is first recorded by ''Michael de Suthcot, Lord of Suthcot'' in the 13th century, and later recorded by Sir Nicholas Southcott Jr of Southcott and Chudleigh (1450–1512) in the 15th century.boveytraceyhistory.org.uk, quoting Youings, Joyce (Joyce Youings, Devon Monastic Lands: Calendar of Particulars for Grants 1536–1558 (Exeter: DCRS New Series, 1955)) According to the ''Survey of Devon'' by Tristram Risdon (b.1580), "Michael de Southcott Lord of Southcott was from whom issued divers families. For he was the original of a great kindred in this country". Micheal was originally from Bodmin moor and gained the Southcott estate from the Oliver De Chambernon in 1242, whose family had been granted the estate after the Norman Conquest. Sir Nicholas's son, John Southcott Esq of Bovey Tracey (1481–1556), in 1544, following the Dissolution of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cressing Temple
Cressing Temple is a medieval site situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, close to the villages of Cressing and White Notley. It was amongst the very earliest and largest of the possessions of the Knights Templar in England,http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39854&strquery=cressing temple Retrieved 9 October 2014 and is currently open to the public as a visitor attraction. The site has protection as an ancient monument. The Knights Templar built two barns which are preserved as Grade I listed buildings; one of these medieval barns is claimed to be the oldest standing timber-framed barn in the world.Bettley, James, and Nikolaus Pevsner. Essex: The Buildings of England. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. 313. The Knights Templar Preceptory of Cressing The manor of Cressing was granted to the Knights Templar in 1136 by Matilda of Boulogne, the wife of King Stephen. It is close to the main road between London and Colchester and the road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Brain
The River Brain is a tributary of the River Blackwater in Essex, England. It has been claimed it lent its name to the town of Braintree, although it seems that the name ‘Braintree’ is older, and that the river name is a back formation from the town name; Braintree lies on a low ridge between the Brain and the River Blackwater. To the north of Braintree it is known as Pods Brook. The brook rises near the village of Bardfield Saling. Below Braintree the Brain joins the Blackwater in Whet Mead in Witham. In 2001, a "flood park" was planned to reduce the risk of overflow from the river. References and external links * Map and aerial photo sources for grid reference A projected coordinate systemalso called a projected coordinate reference system, planar coordinate system, or grid reference systemis a type of spatial reference system that represents locations on Earth using Cartesian coordinate system, Car ...: ** — the source of the Pods Brook ** — confluence w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Blackwater, Essex
The River Blackwater is a river in Essex, England. It rises as the River Pant in the northwest of the county, just east of Saffron Walden, and flows in a generally southeast direction to Bocking, near Braintree, via Great Sampford and Great Bardfield. At Bocking, it becomes the River Blackwater, and veers east to flow past Bradwell Juxta Coggeshall and Coggeshall. It then veers south, flowing past Kelvedon and Witham, before reaching Maldon. There, it veers east again and empties into the Blackwater Estuary, which in turn meets the North Sea at Mersea Island. The River Blackwater has two major tributaries: the River Brain, which meets it just south of Witham, and the River Chelmer, which meets it just east of Maldon. The lower reaches of the Chelmer, from Chelmsford, were canalised in the 1790s, and the navigation diverts water north of the Blackwater through Maldon before emptying into the Blackwater Estuary at Heybridge Basin. History One of the most famous Viking battle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward The Elder
Edward the Elder (870s?17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924. He was the elder son of Alfred the Great and his wife Ealhswith. When Edward succeeded to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin Æthelwold ætheling, Æthelwold, who had a strong claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, Æthelred I. Alfred had succeeded Æthelred as king of Wessex in 871, and almost faced defeat against the Danish Vikings until his decisive victory at the Battle of Edington in 878. After the battle, the Vikings still ruled Northumbria, Kingdom of East Anglia, East Anglia and eastern Mercia, leaving only Wessex and western Mercia under Anglo-Saxon control. In the early 880s Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, the ruler of western Mercia, accepted Alfred's lordship and married his daughter Æthelflæd, and around 886 Alfred adopted the new title King of the Anglo-Saxons as the ruler of all Anglo-Saxons not subject to D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldbröl
Waldbröl is a town in the southern part of the Oberbergischer Kreis (upper Berg county), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Location The town is located on the slopes of the Nutscheid range of hills and is part of the Bergisches Land Nature Park. It is about east of the city of Cologne. Neighbouring municipalities The neighbouring municipalities of Waldbröl are, clockwise starting in the north, Reichshof, Morsbach, Wissen (Sieg), Windeck, Ruppichteroth and Nümbrecht. The market town of Waldbröl is home to a hospital, secondary schools, and shopping facilities. Waldbröl is therefore the main town in an area of around 65,000 inhabitants, that stretches from Bruchermühle in the north to Herchen in the south and from Ruppichteroth in the west to Friesenhagen in the east. Municipal subdivisions In addition to Waldbröl itself, which has a population of about 11,000, there are 64 separate sub-districts: History In 1131, the place was mentioned for the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
