Fingringhoe

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Fingringhoe
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Fingringhoe
Location within Essex
Population764 (Parish, 2021) [1]
OS grid reference TM029203
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
UK Parliament
Website fingringhoe.info
List of places
UK
England
Essex
51°50′38″N0°56′49″E / 51.844°N 0.947°E / 51.844; 0.947

Fingringhoe is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. The centre of the village is classified as a conservation area, featuring a traditional village pond and red telephone box. The Roman River flows nearby before entering the River Colne. [2] The name means "hill-spur of the Fingringas", a tribal name denoting the "people who dwell on the finger of land". [3] It has frequently appeared on lists of unusual place-names. [4] At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 764.

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Geography

Fingringhoe Wick

Fingringhoe is locally known for its salt marshes, which provide habitats for many birds and salt-water animals. These form part of the Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve managed by Essex Wildlife Trust. [2]

History

Roman port

During the 1st Century AD Fingringhoe was home to a river port which serviced the nearby provincial capital of Roman Britain at Camulodunum (modern Colchester). [5] [6] Given the lack of a known road between Fingringhoe and Colchester, it is likely that seagoing vessels stopped in Fingringhoe, where their cargo was transferred to smaller riverboats. [7]

Middle Ages

A manor located at Fingringhoe was donated by Henry I of England to the Norman abbey of Saint-Ouen at Rouen. [8]

Monuments

St Andrew's Church

A prominent feature in the centre of the village, the north wall of St Andrew's Church dates back to the 12th century. [9]

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. 1 2 M.P.B. Fautley; J.H. Garon (1 July 2004). Essex Coastline: Then and Now. Matthew Fautley. p. 46. ISBN   978-0-9548010-0-7 . Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. p. 231. ISBN   978-0-521-16855-7.
  4. ↑ Parker, Quentin (2010). Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15: An insider's guide to 201 of the world's weirdest and wildest places. Adams Media. pp. ix. ISBN   9781440507397.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Iron-Age and Roman Colchester", A History of the County of Essex: Volume 9: The Borough of Colchester (1994): 2-18, Janet Cooper, C R Elrington (Editors), A P Baggs, Beryl Board, Philip Crummy, Claude Dove, Shirley Durgan, N R Goose, R B Pugh, Pamela Studd, C C Thornton.. British History Online. Web. 01 June 2014
  6. ↑ Crummy, Philip (1997) City of Victory; the story of Colchester - Britain's first Roman town. Published by Colchester Archaeological Trust ( ISBN   1 897719 04 3)
  7. ↑ "Fingringhoe Wick (Beacon) Port". Roman Britain. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  8. ↑ Véronique Gazeau, Normannia monastica: Prosopographie des abbés bénédictins (Xe siècle-XIIe siècle), Publications du CRAHM, Caen, 2007.
  9. ↑ James Bettley; Nikolaus Pevsner (2 August 2007). Essex. Yale University Press. p. 362. ISBN   978-0-300-11614-4 . Retrieved 17 July 2012.



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