civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
Essex
Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
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Greenstead Green
Greenstead Green is a village in the civil parish of Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural, near the town of Halstead, in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England.
Other nearby settlements include Burton's Green, Earls Colne, P ...
Coggeshall
Coggeshall ( or ) is a town and civil parish in the Braintree district, in Essex, England, between Braintree and Colchester on the Roman road Stane Street and the River Blackwater. In 2001 it had a population of 3,919. It has almost 300 li ...
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Colne Engaine
Colne Engaine is a village and a civil parish in Essex, England, situated just north of the River Colne and of the larger village of Earls Colne, approximately ten miles northwest of Colchester. The village takes its name from the river, aro ...
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Earls Colne
Earls Colne is a village in Essex, England named after the River Colne, Essex, River Colne, on which it stands, and the Earls of Oxford who held the manor of Earls Colne from before 1086 to 1703.
History Manor of Earls Colne
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Gosfield
Gosfield is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is located around two miles west of the town of Halstead. In 2011 the parish had a population of 1362.
Places of note include the following:
*Gosfield Hall: ...
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Great Maplestead
Great Maplestead is a village and a civil parish in the Braintree (district), Braintree District, in the English county of Essex.
In the sixteenth century the Deane family were Lords of the Manor of Great Maplestead. Later in the century the ma ...
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Halstead
Halstead is a town and civil parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England. Its population of 11,906 in 2011Little Maplestead, Pebmarsh,
Sible Hedingham
Sible Hedingham ( ) is a large village and civil parish in the River Colne, Essex, Colne Valley in the Braintree (district), Braintree District of Essex, in England. It has a population of 3,994 according to the 2011 census. Sible Hedingham li ...
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Stisted
Stisted is a civil parish, Church of England parish, and former manor near Braintree, Essex, England. Andrew Motion, a former Poet Laureate, was raised there.
History of Stisted
In 1589 the village came to notice when a local woman, Joan Cunn ...
On 31 December 1894 the parish was created from Halstead as Halstead Rural. On 1 October 1934, 527 acres was transferred to Halstead Urban. On 1 April 1974 it was renamed to "Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural".