Beaumont-cum-Moze
| Beaumont-cum-Moze | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 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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- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120520&c=CO12+5BG&d=16&e=62&g=6425815&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=0&s=1443104636572&enc=1. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ↑ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.33.
- ↑ Eilert Ekwall, op. cit., p.333.
- ↑ "The United Benefice of Tendring, Little Bentley and Beaumont-cum-Moze". http://www.secretwater.org.uk/beaumont.htm. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
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