East Donyland

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East Donyland
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East Donyland
Location within Essex
Population2,522 (Parish, 2021) [1]
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town COLCHESTER
Postcode district CO5
Dialling code 01206
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
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UK
England
Essex
51°51′05″N0°56′56″E / 51.851443°N 0.949024°E / 51.851443; 0.949024

East Donyland is a civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. The main settlement in the parish is the village of Rowhedge. [2] The parish also includes the country estate of East Donyland Hall. [3] The parish lies to the south-east of Colchester. The neighbouring parish to the south is Fingringhoe, and to the east the parish is separated from its neighbour Wivenhoe by the River Colne. [4] At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,522.

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History

The name "Donyland" means 'Land connected with Dunna'. [5] In Saxon times there had been a single estate called Donyland covering an extensive area south of Colchester. The estate was split into four parts in the late 10th century. Three of the four parts of Donyland then came under the jurisdiction of the borough of Colchester; those three were collectively termed "West Donyland". The other part was outside the borough in the Lexden hundred, and became known as East Donyland. [6] The Donyland estates were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Dunilanda'/'Dunulunda'. [7]

East Donyland became a parish. The parish church, dedicated to St Lawrence, historically stood to the north of East Donyland Hall. [8] A replacement parish church, also dedicated to St Lawrence, was built in 1838 on a new site in Rowhedge, which had come to be the largest settlement in the parish. [9]

The parish has been subject to occasional adjustments to its boundaries with neighbouring parishes. [10] [11]

References

  1. ↑ "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
  2. ↑ Donyland Parish Council
  3. ↑ Historic England. "East Donyland Hall (Grade II) (1239581)". National Heritage List for England .
  4. ↑ "East Donyland". Ordnance Survey . Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  5. ↑ "East Donyland Key to English Place-names". The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  6. ↑ Cooper, Janet; Elrington, C. R., eds. (1994). A History of the County of Essex: Volume 9. London: Victoria County History. pp. 408–418. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
  7. ↑ The Domesday Book Online
  8. ↑ "Essex Sheet XXXVII, 1881". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  9. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Lawrence (Grade II) (1273661)". National Heritage List for England .
  10. ↑ "Relationships and changes East Donyland CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  11. ↑ "The Colchester (Parish) Order 2004" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England . Retrieved 31 March 2021.


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