Dengie
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| Dengie | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 St James' Church, Dengie | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL986016 |
| Location: | 51°40’43"N, 0°52’18"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 119 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Southminster |
| Postcode: | CM0 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Maldon |
Dengie is a village and parish in eastern Essex, situated to the north-east of Southminster. It had a population of 119 at the 2011 census.[1]
It gives its name to the Dengie peninsula and hundred and to the Dengie Special Protection Area.
The place-name 'Dengie' is first attested in a manuscript of between 709 and 745, where it appears as Deningei. It appears as Daneseia in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means 'Dene's island' or 'the island of Dene's people'.[2]
The 14th-century church of St James is the parish Church for the village.
Dengie marshes were once used to film an episode of Doctor Who. [3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122665&c=CM0+7JG&d=16&e=62&g=6425487&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1442945709745&enc=1. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
- ↑ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.141.
- ↑ "Dr Who Locations". http://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/tillinghammarshes.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Dengie) |
- Information and photographs of Dengie Village
- -Click here to visit a Flickr group where anyone can upload & display their photos of the Dengie Hundred
- www.burnhamrotary.info - The Rotary Club of Burnham on Crouch & Dengie Hundred
- The history of Dengie Village
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