Beaumont-cum-Moze

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Beaumont-cum-Moze
Essex
Beaumont Quay 2002.jpg
Beaumont Quay
Location
Grid reference: TM175250
Location: 51°52’52"N, 1°9’31"E
Data
Population: 339  (2011)
Post town: Clacton-on-Sea
Postcode: CO16
Dialling code: 01255
Local Government
Council: Tendring
Website: Parish Council

Beaumont-cum-Moze is a parish in the Tendring hundred of Essex. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 352, reducing to 339 at the 2011 Census.[1] The parish includes Beaumont and Moze Cross.

The place-name 'Beaumont' was originally Fulanpettæ in a Saxon charter of circa 995, and Fulepet in the Domesday Book of 1086, meaning 'foul pit'. By 1175-80 it had become Bealmont, meaning 'beautiful hill',[2] a very early example of successful rebranding.

The place-name 'Moze' is first attested in the Domesday Book, where it appears as Mosa. This is from the Old English mos meaning 'marsh' or 'moss'.[3]

Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy lived at Thorpe Hall in Thorpe-le-Soken and is buried at the 11th-century Parish Church of St Leonard in Beaumont-cum-Moze.[4]

Beaumont Cut is a derelict canal in the parish.

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