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46 unusual facts about Essex


2010 Championship League

The 2010 Championship League professional non-ranking snooker tournament was played from 4 January to 25 March 2010 at the Crondon Park Golf Club, in Stock, England.

Austin Adams

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

Boxted

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

Brooke Angus

Brooke Elizabeth Angus (born February 14, 1982) is a beauty queen from Essex, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA 2002 and Miss World 2006 pageants.

Cape Cod Knockabout

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

Chelmsford Radio

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

Consortium for Selective Schools in Essex

The Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex is the organisation which organises the 11+ examiniation in Essex, England.

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.

Daws Heath

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.

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, Ontario

The current Town of Essex was created on 1 April 1999 through the amalgamation of the former towns of Essex and Harrow, along with the former townships of Colchester North and Colchester South.

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The town comprises the communities of Ambassador Beach, Barretville, Belcreft Beach, Colchester, Edgars, Essex Centre, Gesto, Harrow, Klie's Beach, Leslies Corner, Levergood Beach, Lypps Beach, Marshfield, McGregor, New Canaan, Oxley, Paquette Corners, Seymour Beach and Vereker.

Fillol's Hall

Fillol's Hall or Felix Hall, Kelvedon, Essex was an English manor house.

Fred Bacon

Born in Boxted, Essex, Bacon competed for Ashton-under-Lyne Harriers whilst stationed there as a soldier.

Frinton Golf Club

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

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.

History of local government in England

In County Durham, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Devon, Dorset, East Sussex, Shropshire, Kent, Essex, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, one or two major towns/cities were established as unitary authorities, with the rest of the county remaining two tier.

Hugh Haggard

Haggard, only son of Admiral Sir Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard and his wife Dorothy Booker Ellis Haggard, was born on 21 June 1908 in Stock, Essex, England.

John Adey Repton

Before 1835, when he sent in designs for the new Houses of Parliament, he had retired to Springfield near Chelmsford; he gave his services as architect of Springfield church in 1843.

John Fray

The Frays River is a branch of the River Colne which may have been developed to feed watermills in the area.

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.

Layer Marney Tower

Layer Marney Tower is a Tudor palace, composed of buildings, gardens and parkland, dating from 1520 situated in Layer Marney, Colchester, Essex, England.

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 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.

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.

Marks Hall

Marks Hall was a Jacobean country house some 3 km (2 miles) north of Coggeshall in Essex, England.

New Hall School

The school chapel runs weekly Sunday mass which are open to the public and serves the Parish of St Augustine of Canterbury, Springfield.

Noel Stephen Paynter

Noel Stephen Paynter had been born in Essex where his father, Canon F S Paynter, was rector of Springfield.

O. W. Tancock

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

Optare Tempo

Regal Busways have bought three vehicles for use on their premier route 1 service between Chelmsford and Canvey Island in 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.

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It is located in Tolleshunt Knights, near Maldon, Essex, in England, and is the oldest Orthodox religious community in the UK.

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.

Ricky Blues

On October 23, they unsuccessfully challenged Leather & Lace (Rich Carlisle and Adrian Hall) in Essex, Maryland for the then vacant MEWF Tag Team Championship, however, they won the titles a month later in Gaithersburg.

Robert fitzRoger

FitzRoger was the son of Roger fitzRichard, who held Warkworth and was lord of Clavering, Essex.

SEEVIC College

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

Shelley, Essex

Shelley is a small urban settlement in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest District, in the English county of Essex.

Sir George Berney Brograve, 2nd Baronet

A younger brother, Roger Brograve, described as "of competent, if not splendid fortune" had inherited money and estates from their uncle Thomas Brograve, a lawyer of Springfield, Essex in 1811.

Southend Urban Area

The Southend Urban Area is the informal name for the urban area including and surrounding Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England.

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.

Stratford Langthorne Abbey

During the 13th century, the abbey acquired further grants of land in Essex and beyond, including the manor of Biggin in Chadwell St Mary.

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

Ulting Wick

Ulting Wick is a four acre garden in Essex, created around a 16th-century farmhouse.

William Atwood

William Atwood was son and heir of John Atwood of Broomfield, Essex.


AB Airlines

AB Airlines was an airline with its head office in the Entreprise House on the property of London Stansted Airport in Uttlesford, Essex.

Anthony N. Moore

A solo exhibition of these works and the grisaille were shown at Mandells Gallery, Goodmayes, Essex in 1984.

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.

Brownsea Island Scout camp

The young people traveled from the World Scout Jamboree in Hylands Park, Essex to Brownsea Island to be at this landmark of Scouting on 1 August 2007 for the Sunrise Ceremony.

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.

David Beetham

Closer to home, he joined Democratic Audit at the University of Essex in 1992 where he became Associate Editor, working closely with Director Stuart Weir.

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.

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.

Edwin Manton

Sir Edwin, known to his colleagues in America as Jimmy and to friends in England as Jim, was born in Earls Colne, Essex, 20 miles from Constable's birthplace.

Elizabethtown, New York

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

Essex Cares

These include the new Reablement Service which provides intensive support for people either leaving hospital or in need of assistance in their home environment, the specialist Sensory services team focus on visual and deaf and hard hearing needs for the people of Essex as well as aids, adaptations, personal alarms and telecare delivered and installed in people’s homes.

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 Park, New Jersey

In 2008, the township of Montclair was looking for ways to lower its budget and as part of a series of budget cuts and cancellations decided that the ice rink at Essex Park, the Clary Anderson Arena, should be privatized.

Francis Newton Parsons

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

Great Burstead

The Great Burstead cricket team was formed in 1956 has recently merged with East Hanningfield CC but will continue to play in the T Rippon Mid-Essex League.

Hopper Read

Despite the fact that Farnes could not help him owing to injury, Read and Stan Nichols stood alone as a pace-bowling duo and in a sensational match at Huddersfield, their sheer pace off the pitch bowled out the otherwise unbeaten Yorkshire eleven for 31 and 99, giving Essex a win by an innings and 204 runs.

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.

James Lordi

A lawyer and former executive secretary to Newark Mayor Ralph A. Villani, Lordi was elected to the State Assembly in 1969 to represent Essex County District 11A.

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.

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.

Lauren Etame Mayer

In November 2011, Lauren's Rolex Daytona watch was found and returned after six years by police after raids in Essex and East London.

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.

MyNewPlace

MyNewPlace was initially backed by SplitRock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Trinity Ventures, and is also backed by some of a number of real estate investment trusts, including United Dominion Realty Trust (UDR), Essex Property Trust, Marcus & Millichap Venture Partners, ConAm Management Corporation, The Lane Company, and Cowboy Properties.

No. 37 Squadron RAF

In September of that year, it was re-formed, with its headquarters at Woodham Mortimer, in Essex.

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.

Perry McCarthy

Born in Billericay, Essex, McCarthy grew up to work for his father's company servicing North Sea oil rigs.

Richard de Grey

Richard, 1 Dec 1202-8 Sep 1271, was the eldest surviving son of Henry de Grey of Thurrock, an Essex landowner owning the manors of Codnor in Derbyshire and Grimston in Nottinghamshire; and Isolda de Bardolf.

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.

Sæbbi of Essex

He despatched Jaruman, the Bishop of Mercia, who was assigned to reconvert the people of Essex to Christianity.

Sir George Honyman, 4th Baronet

His father, Sir Ord Honyman, 3rd Baronet, born 25 March 1794, became lieutenant-colonel commanding the Grenadier Guards 27 December 1850, and died at Nice 27 January 1863, having married, 7 April 1818, Elizabeth Essex, youngest daughter of George Bowen of Coton Hall, Shropshire, an Admiral of the Red.

Squeegee

According to Guinness World Records, the world's fastest window cleaner is Terry Burrows of South Ockendon, Essex, England, who cleaned three standard 45-inch × 45-inch office windows set in a frame in 9.24 seconds at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in March 2005.

St Mary's College, Wellington

Part of the land on which the school is situated was donated by Lord Petre, the 11th Baron Petre (1793-1850), who was a director of the New Zealand Company and whose family seat Thorndon Hall in Essex was an important centre of Catholic Recusancy from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

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.

UCL Academy

In March 2010 Sylvia Jones, headteacher at Valentines High School in Ilford, Essex, was appointed as the first Principal of the Academy, and Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research) of UCL, as Chair of the Academy Governing Body.

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.