Goldhanger
| Goldhanger | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Location: | 51°44’44"N, 0°45’29"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 654 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Maldon |
| Postcode: | CM9 |
| Dialling code: | 01621 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Maldon |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Witham |
Goldhanger is a village and parish in the Thurstable Hundred of Essex, situated on the B1026 road between Maldon and Colchester.
Goldhanger had an agricultural museum[2] and has a church dedicated to St Peter. Goldhanger is at the head of a short creek, on the north side of the estuary of the River Blackwater, four miles east-north-east of the town of Maldon.
The village is directly between Maldon and Tolleshunt D'Arcy and also has direct passage to the River Blackwater.
The place-name Goldhanger is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Goldhangra. The name means slope where marigold grew, from the Old English golde meaning marigold.[3]
Notable people
- John Christopher Atkinson (1814-1900), writer and antiquary
References
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123785&c=CM9+8AP&d=16&e=62&g=6425498&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1443003188467&enc=1. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ↑ Museums in Essex
- ↑ Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.200.
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