Inworth

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Inworth
Essex
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All Saints' Church
Location
Location: 51°49’35"N, 0°43’17"E
Data
Post town: Colchester
Postcode: CO5
Dialling code: 01376
Local Government
Council: Colchester

Inworth is a small village and ancient parish in the hundred of Lexden in Essex, near to Tiptree. Together with Messing it forms the civil parish of Messing-cum-Inworth.

The place-name 'Inworth' is first attested in the Curia Regis Rolls of 1206, where it appears as Inewrth. The name means 'Ina's homestead'.[1]

All Saints' Church dates from the 11th century and is a Grade-I listed building.[2]

References

  1. Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.265.
  2. "Name: PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (INWORTH) List entry Number: 1224592". English Heritage. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1224592. Retrieved 21 April 2014. 
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