A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MILE-END, or Mile-End-St. Michael, or Myland, a parish in Colchester district, Essex; on the river Colne and on the Great Eastern railway, chiefly N of Colchester r. station, within Colchester borough, and 1¼ mile N of the centre of Colchester town. Post town, Colchester. Acres, 2,350. Real property, returned with the borough. Pop., 880. Houses, 195. Abbots Hall manor belonged once to the abbots of St. Osyth, and belongs now to Countess Cowper; and Mile-End-Common was given, by Henry I., to the freemen of Colchester. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £520.* Patron, Countess Cowper. The church is a recent structure, in the early English style; and consists of nave, N aisle, chancel, and porch, with tower and spire.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Mile End St Michael CP/AP Colchester RegD/PLU Essex AncC |
| Place names: | MILE END | MILE END OR MILE END ST MICHAEL OR MYLAND | MILE END ST MICHAEL | MYLAND |
| Place: | Mile End |
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