Wethersfield
| Wethersfield | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
.jpg) 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.
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Wethersfield) |
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130496&c=Wethersfield&d=16&e=62&g=6423060&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1473258221906&enc=1. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ↑ John West in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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