Wethersfield

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Wethersfield
Essex
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Church of St Mary Magdalene & St Mary the Virgin
Location
Grid reference: TL7131
Location: 51°57’13"N, 0°29’20"E
Data
Population: 1,269  (2011[1])
Post town: Braintree
Postcode: CM7
Local Government
Council: Braintree
Parliamentary
constituency:
Braintree

Wethersfield is a village and parish on the B1053 road in the Hinckford hundred of Essex. It is near the River Pant. Wethersfield has a school, a post office, a fire station and two places of worship. Nearby settlements include the town of Braintree and the village of Finchingfield. The village probably gets its name from a Viking invader named Wuthha or Wotha, whose "field" or clearing it was. Reverend Patrick Brontë, father of the Brontë sisters, was a young curate here in 1807, as was the Rev. John West, missionary to Canada, who married Harriet Atkinson here in 1807.[2]

MDP Wethersfield is the Headquarters and Training Centre for the Ministry of Defence Police, located at a former United States Air Force base.

The civil parish includes the hamlets of Beazley End, Blackmore End, and Brickkiln Green.

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