Barrow Hill, Essex

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Barrow Hill
Essex

House in Barrow Hill
Location
Island: Mersea Island
Grid reference: TM020143
Location: 51°47’29"N, 0°55’48"E
Data
Post town: Colchester
Postcode: CO5
Dialling code: 01206
Local Government
Council: Colchester
Parliamentary
constituency:
Harwich and North Essex

Barrow Hill is a hamlet in Essex. It stands on Mersea Island, about a mile north of West Mersea near to where the Strood causeway meets the island. The hamlet is twenty miles east of the county town, Chelmsford.

The place takes its name from a conspicuous Romano-British barrow found here.

Outside links

The Barrow