In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sturmer like this:
STURMERE, a parish in the district of Risbridge and county of Essex; on the Cambridge and Colchester railway, 1½ mile SE of Haverhill. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Halstead. Acres, 945. Real property, £1,749. Pop., 326. Houses, 70. S. Hall, Abbots Hall, and Woodland Green, are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £240.* Patron, the Rev. Dr. Fletcher. The church is tolerable.
Sturmer through time
Sturmer is now part of Braintree district. Click here for graphs and data of how Braintree has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sturmer itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sturmer, in Braintree and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6923
Date accessed: 21st October 2024
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