Langenhoe is a village in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England, located south of Colchester. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 536, increasing to 572 at the 2011 Census. [1]
The village church was once reputed to be amongst the most haunted buildings in Essex. [2] This ancient church, which had been damaged in the Essex earthquake of 1884, [3] was closed to worship in 1955 and demolished in 1963 after it was deemed structurally unsafe.
The name Langenhoe is from the Old English for ‘long hill-spur’. [4]
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