Goldhanger

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Goldhanger
Essex
St. Peter's church, Goldhanger, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 172845.jpg
Location
Location: 51°44’44"N, 0°45’29"E
Data
Population: 654  (2011[1])
Post town: Maldon
Postcode: CM9
Dialling code: 01621
Local Government
Council: Maldon
Parliamentary
constituency:
Witham

Goldhanger is a village and parish in the Thurstable Hundred of Essex, situated on the B1026 road between Maldon and Colchester.

Goldhanger had an agricultural museum[2] and has a church dedicated to St Peter. Goldhanger is at the head of a short creek, on the north side of the estuary of the River Blackwater, four miles east-north-east of the town of Maldon.

The village is directly between Maldon and Tolleshunt D'Arcy and also has direct passage to the River Blackwater.

The place-name Goldhanger is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Goldhangra. The name means slope where marigold grew, from the Old English golde meaning marigold.[3]

Notable people

  • John Christopher Atkinson (1814-1900), writer and antiquary

References

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