Thorpe-le-Soken

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Thorpe-le-Soken
Location within Essex
Population1,961 (2011) [1]
OS grid reference TM178223
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Region
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CLACTON-ON-SEA
Postcode district CO16
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51°51′25″N1°09′50″E / 51.857°N 1.164°E / 51.857; 1.164

Thorpe-le-Soken is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is located east of Colchester, west of Walton-on-the-Naze and Frinton-on-Sea, and north of Clacton-on-Sea.

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History

Since 2002, archaeological investigations ahead of construction work have uncovered traces of Palaeolithic (early Clactonian 424,000-400,000 BC), Mesolithic, early Neolithic and Roman rural settlements. [2] Thorpe-le-Soken's contiguous history can be traced back to Saxon times. [3] In c. 970, King Æthelstan confirmed the grant of Eduluesnaesa – combined estate of Kirby, Thorpe and Walton – to St Paul’s. Soken meaning a jurisdiction [4] with separate taxation and managerial responsibilities.

There has been a manor house at Thorpe since about 1150. The old manor house, Thorpe Hall, was owned by the Leake family, and rebuilt in the 1820s by the wealthy lawyer J.M. Leake (d. 1862). It was later leased by Frederic Foaker, owner of Sneating Hall at Kirby-le-Soken. Thorpe Hall was the home of Viscount Byng of Vimy (Governor General of Canada 1921–6), and his wife Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, who relandscaped the gardens. [5]

Between 1690 and 1720 Thorpe housed a community of several dozen Huguenot refugees fleeing persecution in France, who are thought to have stayed at the large house still called Comarques. The house is now home to the Adams family. (Source: Huguenot Society records.) This was also the home of the famous Midlands author Arnold Bennett just before and during the First World War. (Source: contemporary issues of Essex County Standard, Arnold Bennett's Correspondence.)

The local church, St Michael's, was shown in series 2 episode 4 of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? , where comedian Julian Clary traced a family member to the church. [6]

Facilities

Thorpe-le-Soken has Rolph CofE Primary School in the High Street, and the Thorpe Campus of Tendring Technology College (Years 7, 8 and 9) in Landermere Road. The village is served by Thorpe-le-Soken railway station. The village had a post office at 29 High Street, but this closed c. 2008 and was converted into a house. The village hosts several shops, pubs and eateries. [7]

Notable residents

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References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  2. ↑ { Colchester Archaeological Trust (2002) GL1042_SEA64000_Thorpe Hall p.8, 17-20; ASE (2017) ASE Report No: 2017476 Thorpe Maltings p3, 7-8}
  3. ↑ Shore, Thomas William (1906), Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race - A Study of the Settlement of England and the Tribal Origin of the Old English People (1st ed.), London, p. 279{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ { Dr James Kemble Essex Place-names : Places Streets and people (2007, Historical Publications p.86, 88)}
  5. ↑ "LANDOWNERSHIP: THORPE-LE-SOKEN" (PDF). Victoria County History. 23 April 2005.
  6. ↑ "Thorpe le Soken: Comic Julian films new TV series at Essex church". Thurrock Gazette. 23 August 2005. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "Frinton on Sea, Tendring, Essex, UK - seaside town on the east coast of England". Frinton-on-Sea: Frinton.org. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
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