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36 unusual facts about Essex


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.

Castle Park Cricket Ground

Due to the River Colne running alongside the ground, there used to be regular problems of drainage.

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.

Creeksea Place

Creeksea Place is located near to the town of Burnham-on-Crouch in the Essex countryside of eastern England.

Daws Heath

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

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).

EMD F45

It has been converted to a Luxury Locomotive Lodge at the Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana.

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, Massachusetts

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

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.

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.

Harlow College

Harlow College (formerly Harlow Technical College) is a Further Education college in Harlow, Essex, England.

Henry John Clements

# Henry Theophilus, born 24 July 1820, died unknown; he married on the 1 December 1868 to Gertrude Caroline Lucy Markham (born 28 September 1842 - died unknown), daughter of the Rev. David Frederick Markham, Canon of Windsor and Rector of Great Horkesley, Essex, England.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist

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

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.

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.

Ulting Wick

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

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 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.

Baron Scales

The Scales family's main residences were Middleton in Norfolk, Newsells in Hertfordshire and Rivenhall in Essex but also held other lands including Ouresby and Torneton in Lincolnshire.

Christopher Elderfield

After holding some minor appointments, one of which was as curate at Coates, Essex, he became rector of Burton, Sussex.

David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

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.

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.

Eric Gordon England

In 1908, he left the railways for his first job in aviation, working as an assistant for Noel Pemberton Billing who was trying to establish a flying ground at South Fambridge in Essex.

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.

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.

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.

Evelyn Toulmin

The son of Reverend Frederick Bransby Toulmin and Katherine O'Brien (sister of the 13th Baron Inchiquin), he was born at Hatfield Peverel, Essex, and educated at the King's School, Oxford.

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.

George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton

Grafton married Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave (1761–1808), daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, on 16 November 1784 at Navestock, Essex.

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.

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).

Isabel de Bolebec

In 1216 King John besieged and took the Oxford's seat, Castle Hedingham, in Essex.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation

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

Murder of Hannah Williams

Initially the body was speculatively identified as that of Danielle Jones, who had been missing from East Tilbury in Essex since 18 June 2001, but it was soon firmly identified by Williams's distinctive clothing.

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.

Nutley, East Sussex

For the township in Essex County, New Jersey, see Nutley, New Jersey.

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.

Perry McCarthy

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

Richard Woleman

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

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.

Sidney Perley

Since 1877 Mr. Perley has been a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and he also is a member of the Essex Institute, and various professional and literary organizations.

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.

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.

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.