Cressing

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Cressing
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Cressing
Location within Essex
OS grid reference TL792209
Civil parish
  • Cressing
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BRAINTREE
Postcode district CM77
Dialling code 01376
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
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List of places
UK
England
Essex
51°51′31″N0°36′08″E / 51.85873°N 0.602188°E / 51.85873; 0.602188

Cressing is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. Within the parish is the village of Tye Green and the hamlet of Hawbush Green.

Cressing Temple is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south from Cressing village, and less than 1 mile east from the village of White Notley. It is nestled between Braintree and Witham, just a couple of miles or one train stop to Braintree Shopping Village, formerly Freeport.

The parish contains two churches, one public house (Fowlers Farm), one Restaurant (Il Salice), which is currently one of the top rated restaurants in Essex as of 2022, and a business park. A men's Sunday League and youth football teams play at Cressing Sports and Social Club in Tye Green. Cressing railway station, on the Braintree Branch Line, is at the west of the parish.

In 2020, an archaeological dig by Oxford Archaeology discovered an iron age village with over 17 roundhouse. The village was destroyed during the 1st century AD, and may have been reprisals by the Romans after the Boudican uprising of AD 60/61. [1]

Sir Evelyn Wood (1838–1919), a Field Marshal and Victoria Cross recipient, was born at Cressing. [2]

References

  1. "Evidence of Roman reprisals in Essex?". Current Archaeology. 4 February 2021.
  2. Mee, Arthur (1942). The King's England - Essex. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 104.


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