Tolleshunt Knights is a village and

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 ...

in the English county of

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 ...

. The parish has a Parish council, and is in the area of

Maldon District Council 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 produc ...

. It borders

Tiptree Tiptree is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Essex, situated south-west of Colchester and around north-east of London. Surrounding villages include Messing, Tolleshunt Knights, Tolleshunt Major, Layer Marney, Inwor ...

Layer Marney Layer Marney is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, near Tiptree. Layer Marney has a Tudor palace called Layer Marney Tower and the Church of St Mary the Virgin. History The ancient village was in the ...

and

Salcott cum Virley Salcott or Salcott cum Virley is a village and civil parish in the Colchester borough of Essex, England, that forms part of the Winstred Hundred grouped parish council. It is adjacent to Tolleshunt Knights, Tollesbury and Great Wigborough, ne ...

within the

Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in northeastern Essex, England. It is the second-largest settlement in the county, with a population of 130,245 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 Census. The demonym is ''Colcestrian''. Colchester occupies the ...

Borough Council A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History In the Middle Ag ...

's District and

Tolleshunt D'Arcy Tolleshunt D'Arcy () is a village situated on the River Blackwater, Essex, Blackwater estuary in the Maldon (district), Maldon District of Essex, England. The village is southwest of Colchester, east of Chelmsford and north of Southend-on-Sea ...

also within Maldon District. Prior to

Parish Council being established in 1934 much of the Tiptree Heath area was within the boundaries of Tolleshunt Knights. The village is the site of the

Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist The Patriarchal Stauropegic, Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist is a monastic community for men and women, directly under the Church of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarchate. It is located in Tolleshunt Knights, near Maldon, Essex, in ...

, an

Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...

monastery founded in 1958.

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