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45 unusual facts about Essex


Austin Adams

Austin Adam's ancestors lived along the hills of the Chums River in Essex, England.

Beth Chatto Gardens

The gardens are located at White Barn House in the village of Elmstead Market, 6 miles east of Colchester in Essex, England.

Boxted

Boxted, Essex, a village and civil parish in the Colchester district of Essex, England

Brentwood Cathedral

Opposite them is a crucifix, formerly in the church at Stock, Essex.

Cape Cod Knockabout

There is also a small racing fleet at the Split Rock Yacht Club in Essex, New York, on Lake Champlain.

Carters Coach Services

The company operates services over a wide area in both Suffolk and Essex.

Chelmsford Radio

Chelmsford Radio broadcasts on 107.7 MHz from a mobile phone mast at Church Green in the village Danbury.

Christopher Rawlinson

Born at Springfield, Essex, on 13 June 1677, he was the second son of Curwen Rawlinson of Carke Hall in Cartmell, Lancashire, and M.P. for Lancaster in 1688, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Nicholas Monck.

Corringham Light Railway

The Corringham Light Railway (CLR) in Corringham, Essex, England was incorporated on 10 July 1899 and opened to freight on 1 January 1901, to passengers on 22 June 1901.

The CLR ran from a junction with the LTSR near Thames Haven to the Kynoch explosives works at Shell Haven, with branches east to Kynochtown (later Coryton) and west to Corringham.

Dart Kitten

The Dart Kitten II G-AEXT received its authorisation to fly on 30 April 1937 and had a series of owners before being badly damaged in a crash at Willingale, Essex in November 1964.

Daws Heath

Daws Heath contains a large area of woodland in Eastern Thundersley, a region of Essex in England.

Daws Heath extends from the north side of Hadleigh towards the A127 London-Southend arterial road, and from where it adjoins Thundersley proper at the west end of Daws Heath Road eastwards to Belfairs Park, Leigh-on-Sea in Southend Borough.

Douglas XTB2D Skypirate

The Douglas TB2D Skypirate (also known as the Devastator II) was a torpedo bomber intended for service with the United States Navy's Midway and Essex class aircraft carriers; they were too large for earlier decks.

East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing

The school was founded by Morris and Lett-Haines on 12 April 1937 in an old house in the centre of Dedham, Essex.

Edith Pechey

Mary Edith Pechey was born in Langham, Essex, to William Pechey, a Baptist minister with an MA from Edinburgh University and his wife Sarah (née Rotton), a lawyer's daughter who, unusually for a woman of her generation, had studied Greek.

Edward Wilmot Pechey

Edward Pechey was born on 9 November 1841 in Langham near Colchester, Essex, England, the son of William Pechey and his wife Sarah (née Rotton).

Eleven plus exam

In Essex, where the examination is optional, children sit Verbal Reasoning, Mathematics and English.

Essex railway station

Essex railway station (also known as the Old Michigan Central Station) is a railway station building in Essex, Ontario, Canada, constructed by the Michigan Central Railroad in 1887, now operated by a local heritage group, Heritage Essex Inc.

Essex, Maryland

The Glenn L. Martin Company was the single biggest reason for the rapid growth of the area.

Essex, Massachusetts

Evan Dando, founder and frontman of the popular alternative rock band The Lemonheads, is an Essex native.

Essex, San Bernardino County, California

To commemorate this, the entire population of the town, including well-known residents Jerry and Virginia Smith, attended a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Frinton Golf Club

Frinton Golf Club is a coastal golf club, located on the suburbs of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England.

Greensted

Greensted is a village in the Ongar civil parish of Essex, England, strung out along the Greensted Road approximately one mile to the west of Chipping Ongar.

Hadleigh Bus Depot

It is used by First Essex buses who operate many of the routes in the county of Essex and especially in the South East of the county.

Hans Multhopp

In 1949, the Glenn L. Martin Company (later Martin Marietta) of Essex, Maryland made efforts to recruit Multhopp to their staff of aeronautical engineers.

Kelsey Balkwill

She is a graduate of Essex District High School in Essex, Ontario where she was a 6-time outdoor provincial champion in the 400m and intermediate hurdles.

Linda Dean Campbell

Since 2007 she has been a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the 15th Essex – consisting Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the town of Methuen, Essex County.

London Basin

The north eastern part of the basin is now drained to the North Sea by rivers including the Crouch, Blackwater, Stour and Orwell.

The axis of the basin runs west-east from Marlborough and Newbury (Berkshire) to Chertsey (Surrey) before swinging slightly north of east through Westminster, passing midway between Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea (Essex) to the east coast between the estuaries of the Crouch and the Blackwater.

London stock brick

In Stock, Essex there is a common belief that "Stock Bricks" originated there; bricks were certainly made there, but the name is a coincidence, stock being a common English word with many meanings and also a common place-name element.

Maldon Marine Lake

Maldon Marine Lake is a lake in Maldon, a small historic town on the estuary of the River Blackwater in Essex, England has been renowned for its promenade park with its salt water lake.

Marden Ash

Marden Ash is an urban settlement in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest District in Essex, contiguous with the small town of Chipping Ongar.

Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation

The Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation was a Mid-Atlantic independent professional wrestling promotion based in Essex, Maryland.

O. W. Tancock

When he died in 1930, at the age of ninety, his address was The Cedars, Springfield, Essex.

Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist

Realising that such a situation could not continue, he went to Tolleshunt Knights, near Maldon, Essex, England to inspect a property; in the spring of 1959, the new Community of St John the Baptist was formed at the same property, under Metropolitan Anthony's omophorion.

Perry Green

Perry Green, Essex, a hamlet near the village of Bradwell Juxta Coggeshall

RAF Wormingford

The technical area was on the southern side of the airfield and the camp sites dispersed to the south and east in and around the village of Fordham.

Robert Acklom Ingram

He was born on 6 June 1763 (others say 6 July 1761) in Wormingford, the son of Rev. Robert Ingram (1727–1804) of Boxted, Essex and Katherine Acklom (1727–1809).

SEEVIC College

Seevic College is a further education college located in Benfleet, Essex and with a second campus (New Campus Basildon) in Basildon, Essex.

Stansted Transit

Stansted Transit operated 22 bus routes, in Essex and on the Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders, as well as many school bus contracts tendered by Essex County Council.

The Cornfield

Constable referred to the painting as "The Drinking Boy" and it is thought to show a lane leading from East Bergholt towards Dedham, Essex

Weathersfield, Vermont

The Connecticut town had taken its name, in turn, from Wethersfield, a village in the English county of Essex, the name of which derived from "wether", or in Old English wither, meaning a castrated lamb.

William Goodday Strutt

Strutt was baptised at Springfield, Essex, on 26 February 1762, the second son of John Strutt, of Terling Place, Essex, by Anne, daughter of the Rev. William Goodday of Maldon.

Wivenhoe House

A partnership between the University of Essex, independent education foundation Edge and Kaplan Open Learning was created to manage the hotel upon its re-opening in 2012 under the name of the Edge Hotel School.


Anjana Ahuja

Ahuja, who was educated at a comprehensive school in Essex, read physics at Imperial College London, followed by a postgraduate course in space physics during which she worked on data about the Sun's magnetic field from the Ulysses probe.

Aubrey de Vere II

In addition to his patronage of Colne Priory, the new master chamberlain also founded a cell of the abbey St. Melanie in Rennes, Brittany, at Hatfield Broadoak or Hatfield Regis, Essex.

Battle of Cropredy Bridge

With Essex and Waller in pursuit, he was still in danger, but on 7 June, the two Parliamentarian generals (who disliked each other) conferred at Stow on the Wold, and agreed that Essex would march westward to relieve the siege of Lyme Regis, while Waller shadowed the King.

Blue Triangle

Essex County Council route 11 (Purfleet to Basildon) was lost to Clintona Minicoaches in January 2009.

Broadcloth

Around 1500, broadcloth was made in a number of districts of England, including Essex and Suffolk in southern East Anglia, the West Country Clothing District (Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, east Somerset - sometimes with adjacent areas), at Worcester, Coventry, Cranbrook in Kent and some other places.

Catherine Fillol

Catherine Fillol (or Filliol) (c. 1507 - c.1535) was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Fillol (1453 - 9 July 1527), of Woodlands, Horton, Dorset, and of Fillol's Hall, Essex.

East Anglian Railway Museum

The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury.

Edward Filmer

Filmer was born in or about 1657, was the second son of Sir Robert Filmer, 1st Baronet, of East Sutton, Kent, who died 22 March 1676, by his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Maurice Tuke of Layer Marney, Essex.

Elizabethtown, New York

William Gilliland, an investor, bought up large tracts of land in Essex County.

Essex Hospital

The owners of the future Essex Hospital were four popular Marblehead political figures: John Glover, Jonathan Glover (John Glover's brother), Azor Orne, and Elbridge Gerry; they purchased Children's Island (Catt Island) on September 2, 1773.

Essex Regiment

In March 1921 at Crossbarry in County Cork, the Essex regiment encircled the IRAs "West Cork Flying Column" with 1,200 troops and soon managed to expose a company sized element of the IRA.

Essex Street

The Essex Street Market is operated and managed by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC).

On October 10, 2013 Davidovich Bagels opened the first of its worldwide bakeries in the Essex Street Market.

Fifteen Guinea Special

The only one not preserved LMS Black 5 no 44781 was used for filming of the film The Virgin Soldiers at Bartlow in Essex, for which it was derailed and hung at an angle for visual effect.

Francis Newton Parsons

His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Essex Regiment Museum, Chelmsford, Essex, England.

Ilford

In 1965, the municipal borough was abolished and its former area was combined with that of Wanstead and Woodford, the northern extremity of Dagenham and a small part Chigwell Urban District around Hainault; it was removed from Essex and since then has formed the greater part of the London Borough of Redbridge in Greater London.

Illingworth St Mary's Cricket Club

Over the years many famous players have played for and at Illingworth; Tom Emmett (England), Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Gary Fellows (Yorkshire), Stuart Law (Essex, Queensland, Lancashire & Australia) and Robin Uthappa (India).

Jeremiah Dyke

His father William Dyke was a minister at Hempstead, Essex, dispossessed for nonconformity, and then a preacher at Coggeshall; and Daniel Dyke was his brother.

John Haynes

Haynes was likely born at Messing, Essex, England, the eldest son of John Haynes and Mary Michel Haynes.

John Leventhorpe

He was granted the manor of Ugley in Essex, and in 1399 he became constable of Odiham castle and keeper of the royal manor there.

John Mark Davies

Born in Halstead, Essex, England in 1840, Davies was the fifth eldest of the six boys and six girls of Ebenezer Davies and Ruth Bartlett.

John Quinton

He rapidly became a Patrol Leader and attended camps at Gilwell Park, Essex, as well as the World Scout Jamboree in Holland in 1937.

Jonathan Harker

Harker discovers in Carfax Abbey, near Purfleet, Essex, a dwelling which suits the client's requirements and travels to Transylvania by train in order to consult with him about it.

Joubert and White Building

Empire Auto remained in business until 1935, dealing in such brands as Chevrolet, Cadillac, Essex, Hudson, and LaSalle automobiles, as well as GMC trucks.

Katie Jarvis

Jarvis was seen by a casting agent working for director Andrea Arnold at Tilbury Town railway station in Tilbury, Essex, following an argument with her boyfriend, Brian.

Linda Dobbs

Loyda Johnson was a Creole from Sierra Leone and Arthur Dobbs (b. 1914) was an English lawyer originally from Essex who went on to serve as a High Court judge in Sierra Leone.

Lindsey Stagg

The daughter of Barbara A. (née Leney) (born 1945) and Terence F. Stagg (born 1943), who married in 1966 at Rochford in Essex, she was discovered by Michael Napier Brown, the artistic director at the Royal Theatre in Northampton (who also discovered her co-star in the series, Gian Sammarco), who recommended her to Thames Television for the role of Pandora Braithwaite.

Maurice Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan

He remained an Honorary Major in the Royal Horse Artillery (TA) and an Honorary Colonel in the 4th (Cadet) Battalion of the Essex Regiment and in the 6th Battalion of the Essex Regiment (TA).

Mebo Telecommunications

The latter was fitted out as an offshore radio ship and broadcast as Radio Nordsee International between 1970 and 1974, off the coast of Scheveningen and, for a few months, Essex.

Mel Hussain

Mel's younger brother Nasser Hussain captained England and Essex, while his father Jawad Hussain played once for Tamil Nadu in 1964-65 and another brother, Abbas Hussain, reached Second XI level with Essex.

Mercian Supremacy

Mercia’s hold over the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Essex, Sussex and Kent seems to have been tenuous until 716, when Æthelbald of Mercia restored Mercia’s hegemony for over forty years.

Nathaniel Ward

He was soon recognised as one of the foremost Puritan ministers in Essex, and so in 1631 was reprimanded by the Bishop of London, William Laud.

Old Castle Swifts F.C.

Old Castle Swifts Football Club, the first professional football club in Essex, was formed by Scottish shipowner Donald Currie in September 1892 as Castle Swifts Football Club.

Oliver Everett

Everett was educated at St Aubyn's Preparatory School Woodford Green Essex having been Captain of the 1st XVFelsted, the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio and at Christ's CollegeCambridge, and he has a masters degree in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and did post-graduate work in international relations at the London School of Economics.

Patrick Michael Hayes

The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Hayes finished third in Essex-Kent, finishing 2,293 votes behind the winning candidate, Liberal Pat Hoy.

Pennyhole Bay

Pennyhole Bay is a stretch of water situated to the south of the ports of Harwich in Essex and Felixstowe in Suffolk, England where the rivers Stour and Orwell flow into the sea and just east of Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex.

Richard Woleman

On the following 30 June he was presented by the crown to the rectory of High Hunger (Ongar) in Essex.

Rogation days

The then Archdeacon of Essex, Grindal of London, beseeched the church to explicitly label the tradition as a perambulation, so as to further distance itself from the Catholic liturgy.

Samuel Hawkes

His mother descended from immigrant Richard Pratt from Maldon, County of Essex, England; His father from immigrant Adam Hawkes.

Samuel Hoar

His son, Samuel Hoar (1927 - 2004), of Essex, Massachusetts also was a senior partner in the firm formerly known as Goodwin, Procter and Hoar.

Susan Tucker

Tucker served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1982 to 1992, in the Senate from 1999 to 2011, representing the district of Second Essex and Middlesex which includes Lawrence and Andover in Essex County and Dracut and Tewksbury in Middlesex County.

Trench Chiswell

Chiswell was born Richard Muilman, but assumed the extra surnames of Trench and Chiswell by royal licence on 28 November 1772 after the death of his mother’s brother, Richard Chiswell, when he inherited a fortune of £120,000 and Debden Hall in Essex.

Weoley

Weeley, a small village in Tendring, East Essex, England

William Coddington

During this visit to England he married in Terling, Essex, Mary Moseley who came back to New England with him in 1633, and who was admitted to the Boston church that summer.

William Horwood Stuart

William H. Stuart was born in Harrow, London, in 1857 to William Stuart M.A. (1816-1896), who later served as Vicar of Mundon, Essex (1862-1889), and Rector of Hazeleigh, Essex (1889-1896).

William Nightingale

In 1817, when he was 23 and she 29, he married Frances "Fanny" Smith (1789–1880), from Parndon in Essex, daughter of the abolitionist, Whig member of Parliament, William Smith.