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Easthorpe, Essex
Easthorpe is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Copford, in the Colchester district, in the county of Essex, England. Easthorpe is on an old Roman road. Nearby settlements include the large town of Colchester and the villages of Marks Tey, Copford and Copford Green. The main A12 road and Marks Tey railway station 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. Notable buildings * St Mary's Church * Easthorpe Hall * Well Cottage * St Mary's Grange Notable people * Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1785–1854), watercolour artistObituary
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Copford
Copford is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is west of Colchester, and 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 character of the village and neighbourhood." History Copford was originally a Manorialism, manor held by the Bishop of London's office. Upon the death of Bishop Edmund Bonner in 1569 (also buried here) the land briefly became property of The Crown until 1609 when it returned to private ownership. The Church of England parish church of St Michael and All Angels Church, Copford, St Michael and All Angels is Grade I listed. It is renowned for its mid-12th-century Norman architecture, Norman wall paintings that are among the best in England. The paintings were extensively restored in the late 19th century. The church door was claimed to have human skin attached, possibly as a gruesome remnant of an ancie ...
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Marks Tey Railway Station
Marks Tey railway station is a stop on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) in the East of England, serving the large 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 east. Marks Tey is also the southern terminus of the Gainsborough Line to . The station is operated by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving it, as part of the East Anglia franchise. History The station opened in 1843 by the Eastern Counties Railway The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was an English railway company incorporated in 1836 intended to link London with Ipswich via Colchester, and then extend to Norwich and Yarmouth. Construction began in 1837 on the first at the London end. Co ... for services on the Great Eastern Main Line; the Sudbury branch line followed in 1849. From that date until 1889, the station was known as Marks Tey Junction. The branch line is only accessible to trains trav ...
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Villages In Essex
A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a Church (building), church.
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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 1907, ceasing publication altogether in 1922. It was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (from the French language, French ''magazine'', meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Samuel Johnson's first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. History The original complete title was ''The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer''. Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin poetry. It carried original content from a stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotations and extracts from other periodicals and books. Cave, who edited ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (meaning "st ...
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Watercolor Painting
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the Stone Age when early ancestors combined earth and charcoal with water to create the first wet-on-dry picture on a cave wall." in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. ''Watercolor'' refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork. Aquarelles painted with water-soluble colored ink instead of modern water colors are called (Latin for "aquarelle made with ink") by experts. However, this term has now tended to pass out of use. The conventional and most common support—material to which the paint is applied—for watercolor paintings is watercolor paper. Other supports or substrates include stone, ivory, silk, reed, papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum, leather, fabric, wood, and watercolor canvas ...
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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 Church, Canterbury, on 16 May 1787,Brent Elliott, Introduction to ''Royal Horticultural Society Diary 2018'' (Frances Lincoln for Quarto Group, 2017), p. 4 Caroline Maria Applebee was the eldest daughterObituary in The Gentleman's Magazine dated November 1854p. 531/ref> of the Rev. John Applebee, a Church of England clergyman, by his marriage to Grace Lukyn. She never married and spent most of her life in and around Colchester.Alice GossGrave of Caroline Maria Applebeeat interestingincolchester.co.uk, accessed 3 December 2016 A graduate of St John's College, Oxford, her father was appointed a Prebendary of Lincoln in 1795 and the next year became Rector of East Thorpe, Essex, which brought the Applebee family to Colchester when Caroline Ma ...
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A Vision Of Britain Through Time
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website ''A Vision of Britain through Time''. NB: A "GIS" is a geographic information system, which combines map information with statistical data to produce a visual picture of the iterations or popularity of a particular set of statistics, overlaid on a map of the geographic area of interest. Original GB Historical GIS (1994–99) The first version of the GB Historical GIS was developed at Queen Mary, University of London between 1994 and 1999, although it was originally conceived simply as a mapping extension to the existing Labour Markets Database (LMDB). The system included digital boundaries for ...
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A12 Road (England)
The A12 is a major road in Eastern England. It runs north-east/south-west between London and the coastal town of Lowestoft in the north-eastern corner of Suffolk, following a similar route to the Great Eastern Main Line until Ipswich. A section of the road between Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth became part of the A47 road, A47 in 2017. Between the junctions with the M25 and the A14, the A12 forms part of the unsigned International E-road network, Euroroute European route E30, E30 (prior to 1985, it was the E8). Unlike most Great Britain road numbering scheme, A roads, this section of the A12, together with the A14 road (Great Britain), A14 and the A55 road (Great Britain), A55, has junction numbers as if it were a motorway. The section of the A12 through Essex has sections of dual two lanes and dual three lanes, with eight changes in width between the M25 to Ipswich. It was named as Britain's worst road because of "potholes and regular closures due to roadworks" in a 2007 survey b ...
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City Of Colchester
The City of Colchester is a local government district with city status in Essex, England, named after its main settlement, Colchester. It is, with 194,394 people according to Office of National Statistics estimate for mid 2022, the most populous district in Essex and also includes the towns of West Mersea and Wivenhoe and the surrounding rural areas stretching from Dedham Vale on the Suffolk border in the north to Mersea Island in the Colne Estuary in the south. The district borders Tendring District to the east, Maldon District to the south, Braintree District to the west, and Babergh District in Suffolk to the north. History Colchester was an ancient borough with urban forms of local government from Saxon times. Burgesses were already established by the time of the Domesday survey of 1086. The earliest known borough charter dates from 1189, but that charter appears to confirm pre-existing borough rights rather than being the foundation of a new borough. The borough wa ...
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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 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 .... The parish church of St Michael's & All Angels, with sections dating back as far as 1130, is adjacent to Copford Green, as is the manorial house of Copford Hall. References Hamlets in Essex Borough of Colchester {{Essex-geo-stub ...
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Marks Tey
Marks Tey is a large village and Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in Essex, England; it is located six miles west of Colchester. It is one in a group of villages called ''The Teys'', including Great Tey and Little Tey. Amenities Marks Tey's main features include a village hall built in 1993 on the fields intersecting the A12 and A120, with an adjacent children's play park and a skateboard park. There is a small parish hall, used for children's kindergarten and small exhibitions. The hall was almost doubled in size after the extension of the new basketball hall. The hall and gardens also host a monthly artisan event called ''Marks Tey Market'' on the fourth Saturday of the month (from March to October). The village has a parish church, St Andrew's Church, Marks Tey, St Andrew's. The church hall is central to the community, hosting 1st Marks Tey Scout Group with Beavers (Scouting), Beavers, Cub Scout, Cubs and Scouting, Scouts. Following th ...
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