Easthorpe is a small village and former

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 below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

, now in the parish of

Copford Copford is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Essex, England, west of Colchester. The hamlet of Copford Green is found a short distance to the south. The poet Matthew Arnold noted he was struck by ''"the deeply rural charac ...

, in the

Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian. Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colches ...

district, in the county of

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

in the

East of England The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England. This region was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics purposes from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire ...

. Easthorpe is on an old Roman road. Nearby settlements include the large town of

and the villages of

Marks Tey Marks Tey is a large village and electoral ward in Essex, England; it is located six miles west of Colchester. Facilities Marks Tey is one of a group of villages called the Teys, also including Great Tey and Little Tey. Its main features includ ...

and

Copford Green Copford Green is a hamlet within the civil parish of Copford and the district of Colchester in Essex, England. It is near the A12 and A120 roads, and is south west of Colchester. The parish church of St Michael's & All Angels, with sections d ...

. The main A12 road and

Marks Tey railway station Marks Tey railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) in the East of England, serving the village of Marks Tey, Essex. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and on the GEML is situated between to the west and to the ...

are nearby. In 1931 the parish had a population of 113. On 26 March 1949 the parish was abolished and merged with Copford, part also went to Marks Tey and

Messing cum Inworth Messing may refer to: * Messing, Essex Messing is a village and former civil parish, north east of Chelmsford, now in the parish of Messing-cum-Inworth, in the Colchester district, in the county of Essex, England. The village has a population ...

Notable buildings

* St Mary's Church * Easthorpe Hall * Well Cottage * St Mary's Grange

Notable people

Caroline Maria Applebee Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1786 – 16 September 1854) was an English artist, mostly in watercolour. Born in London,1851 United Kingdom census53, Crouch Street, Colchesterat ancestry.co.uk, accessed 15 May 2020 but baptized at St Margaret's C ...

(c. 1785–1854),

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

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The Gentleman's Magazine ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (from the French ''magazine'' ...

'' November 1854, p. 531

References

External links

''British History''
The Buildings of England - Essex - Nikolaus Pevsner 2nd edition 1965 Villages in Essex Former civil parishes in Essex Borough of Colchester {{Essex-geo-stub