Great Clacton Essex Family History Guide
Great Clacton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Other places included in the parish: Little Holland (Holland-on-Sea)
Parish church: St. John the Baptist
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1542
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1802
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Great Clacton
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CLACTON (Great), a parish in Tendring district, Essex; on the coast, 9 miles SE by E of Wivenhoe r. station, and 13 SE of Colchester. It has a post-office under Colchester, and a fair on 29 June.
Acres, 4, 280; of which 235 are water. Real property, £7, 405. Pop., 1, 280. Houses, 284. The property is much subdivided. Clacton Wash is a coast-guard station; and Clacton Cliff has a signal-house and martello towers.
The living is a vicarage, united with Little Holland, in the dio. of Rochester. Value, £307. Patron, F. Nassau, Esq. The church is good.
There are a Wesleyan chapel and a n. school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CLACTON, GREAT (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union and hundred of Tendring, N. division of Essex, 14½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Colchester; containing 1296 inhabitants.
This parish, which was formerly the residence of the bishops of London, is bounded on the south by the North Sea, and comprises an area about fifteen miles in circumference. The soil in some parts is light and of inferior quality, and in others, especially towards the coast, a fine strong loam, producing abundant crops. A fair is held on the 29th of June.
The living is a discharged vicarage, with the donative of Little Holland annexed, valued in the king’s books at £10, and in the patronage of F. Nassau, Esq.; impropriators, Col. Harding and others. The great tithes have been commuted for £1146. 7., the vicarial for £250, and a rent-charge of £66 is paid to Travers’ Knights of Windsor; the glebe contains 4½ acres, with a glebe-house. The church is a plain edifice, with a tower surmounted by a shingled spire.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Some horns and bones of enormous size were lately found in the clay which forms the cliffs on this part of the coast; among them were the grinding-tooth of an elephant, some colossal horns of the wild bull, and part of the skull of a rhinoceros.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Little Holland
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HOLLAND (LITTLE), a parish in Tendring district, Essex; on the coast, near the mouth of Holland brook, 2 miles S of Great Holland, and 3 S by W of Kirby r. station. Post town, Great Clacton, under Colchester.
Acres, 916; of which 270 are water. Real property, £898. Pop., 88. Houses, 17. The coast rises in cliffs.
The living is a donative, annexed to the vicarage of Great Clacton, in the diocese of Rochester. The church has been demolished.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Tendring
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Tendring, Post-1846 – St Osyth
- Poor Law Union: Tendring
- Hundred: Tendring
- Province: Canterbury