Tolleshunt Knights is a village and

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in the

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. The Parish has a Parish council, and lies within 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 produced ...

. It borders

Tiptree Tiptree is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the English county of Essex, situated south-west of Colchester and around north-east of London. Surrounding villages include Messing, Essex, Messing, Tolleshunt Knights, Toll ...

Layer Marney Layer Marney is a village and civil parish near to Tiptree, in the Colchester borough, in the county of Essex, England. Layer Marney has a Tudor palace called Layer Marney Tower and a church called Church of St Mary the Virgin. In 2001 the pop ...

and Salcott cum Virley within 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 ...

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's District and Tolleshunt D'Arcy 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 also the location 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 both men and women, directly under the Church of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarchate. It is located in Tolleshunt Knights, near Maldon, Esse ...

, an

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monastery founded by

Archimandrite Sophrony Saint Sophrony (23 September 1896, in Moscow – 11 July 1993, in Tolleshunt Knights), known also as Elder Sophrony or Father Sophrony was an archimandrite and one of the noted ascetic Christian monks of the twentieth century. He is best known a ...

in 1958. From 1904 to 1951 the village was served by a small station on the

Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway The Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway was a locally promoted railway company, intended to open up an agricultural district that suffered from poor transport links. The enactment of the Light Railways Act 1896 encouraged the promoters to pers ...

. Tolleshunt Knights also has a village hall. Notables residents of Tolleshunt Knights include the Cottee Family who have inhabited the small village and it’s neighbouring village, Tiptree, for over 400 years. They finally decided to settle in the village after leaving the Kingdom of France, they later decided to Anglicise their surname to the more English sounding Cottee from the French Lescot.

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