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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stanway All Saints like this:
STANWAY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Lexden district, Essex. The village stands 1 mile E of Marks-Tey r. station, and 4 W by S of Colchester; and has a post-office under Colchester. The parish contains Lexden workhouse, and comprises 3,368 acres. Real property, £5,611. Pop., 964. Houses, 157. The property is divided among a few. S. Hall is the seat of G. De Horne, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £738.* Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is good...
; and there is a national school. See Stanway-All Saints.The sub-district contains 9 parishes. Acres, 17,338. Pop., 4,663. Houses, 918.
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Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Stanway | 0 | 1 |
Shrub End | 0 | 1 |
Birch | 0 | 2 |
Copford | 0 | 2 |
Lexden | 0 | 3 |
Berechurch | 0 | 2 |
Layer de la Haye | 0 | 2 |
Easthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Layer Breton | 0 | 2 |
Marks Tey | 0 | 3 |
Blackheath | 0 | 1 |
Aldham | 0 | 2 |
Abberton | 0 | 2 |
Colchester | 72 | 5 |
Layer Marney | 0 | 2 |
West Bergholt | 0 | 3 |
Mile End | 0 | 2 |
Hythe | 0 | 2 |
Little Tey | 0 | 2 |
Fordham | 0 | 2 |