Wakes Colne
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| Wakes Colne | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 All Saints church, Wakes Colne | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 51°55’30"N, 0°45’22"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 538 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Colchester |
| Postcode: | CO6 |
| Dialling code: | 01206, 01787 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Colchester |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Harwich and North Essex |
Wakes Colne is a village and parish in the Lexden hundred of Essex, which sits on the River Colne. It is situated next to the village of Chappel, with which it shares Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station.
Location
Wakes Colne is a scattered village on the north side of the river Colne, eight miles west-north-west of Colchester, and five miles east-south-east of Halstead.[2]
References
- ↑ "Parish population 2015". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130070&c=CO6+2AZ&d=16&e=62&g=6424284&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1443525822906&enc=1. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
- ↑ White's Directory of Essex (1848)
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Wakes Colne) |
- Wakes Colne Parish Council
- British History Online: History of Wakes Colne
- East Anglian Railway Museum
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