Colne Engaine
| Colne Engaine | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL855305 |
| Location: | 51°56’29"N, 0°41’26"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,008 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Colchester |
| Postcode: | CO6 |
| Dialling code: | 01787 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Braintree |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Braintree |
Colne Engaine is a village and parish in the Lexden hundred of Essex, situated just north of the River Colne and of the larger village of Earls Colne, approximately ten miles north-west of Colchester. The village takes its name from the river, around which it is likely that the earliest settlements were made, and the Engaine family, who were the principal family of the village between 1279 and 1367.
History
Variations on spelling may be Colne Gagn and Colne Geyne, as seen in 1418.[2]
Previously the village had been known as Little Colne, and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Parva Colun with 38 inhabitants, returning '[a] Man-at-arms from Walter the Deacon; Walter from Robert Malet. 2 mills, 3 beehives. 13 goats'.[3] It is one of four villages named after the river (the others being Earls Colne, Wakes Colne and White Colne). The parish contains the hamlet of Countess Cross.[4] Evidence of Roman settlements have been found by the Church, and also at Knight's Farm, to the west of the village.[5] The Sheriff's manor of Colne Engaine was purchased by John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford in 1508, in order to augment his adjacent Earls Colne manor.[6]
The Five Bells
The Five Bells is the only public house in Colne Engaine. The building is over 500 years old and a record of landlords since 1579 is displayed in the bar area. In 1689 the landlord was recorded as running a 'disorderly house'.[7] Another public house, the Three Cups was recorded in 1766.[8]
Notable former residents
- Isaac Baker Brown, 19th-century gynaecologist and surgeon, was born in the village.[9] The white-brick façade of Knight's Farm, still extant today, is his work.[10]
- Steve Lamacq a BBC Radio 1 DJ, Fighting Talk pundit and Colchester United's most famous fan was raised in Colne Engaine; his parents still live in the village.[11]
References
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122213&c=Colne+Engaine&d=16&e=62&g=6423035&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1472810338980&enc=1. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ↑ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP/629; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0487.htm, first & second entries, as the home of the defendants to the Prior of Merton
- ↑ http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/essex1.html#colneengaine
- ↑ Ordnance Survey getamap
- ↑ E.C.C., SMR 9365-8, 9415, 9421-2, 9426
- ↑ Ross, J., John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442-1513): The Foremost Man of the Kingdom (Woodbridge, 2011), 94-5, 96.
- ↑ Q/SR 461/64, 477/3-4
- ↑ ERO Q/RLv 24-25
- ↑ Roy, Judith M. (2004), "Brown, Isaac Baker (1811–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50268, retrieved 2009-10-04
- ↑ Deeds in possession of Mr. G. Courtauld, bdle. 4; B. Woollings, Browns of Knights (priv. print. c. 1990), passim: copy in E.R.O.
- ↑ Steve Lamacq returns to the BBC 2010
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