Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Maplestead, Little

Maplestead, Little, par., Essex, 2 miles N. of Halstead, 1067 ac., pop. 261; P.O.; the church (restored 1857) belonged to the preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, founded here in 1186.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Little Maplestead AP/CP       Essex AncC
Place names: LITTLE MAPLESTEAD     |     MAPLESTEAD     |     MAPLESTEAD LITTLE
Place: Little Maplestead

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