Tolleshunt Knights

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Tolleshunt Knights
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Tolleshunt Knights
Location within Essex
Population1,030 (2011) [1]
OS grid reference TL916150
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town MALDON
Postcode district CM9
Post townCOLCHESTER
Postcode district CO5
Dialling code 01621
Police Essex
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51°48′03″N0°46′43″E / 51.8009°N 0.7787°E / 51.8009; 0.7787

Tolleshunt Knights is a village and civil parish [2] in the English county of Essex.

The parish has a Parish council, and is in the area of Maldon District Council. [2] It borders Tiptree, Layer Marney and Salcott cum Virley within the Colchester Borough Council's District and Tolleshunt D'Arcy also within Maldon District. Prior to Tiptree Parish Council being established in 1934 much of the Tiptree Heath area was within the boundaries of Tolleshunt Knights.

The village is the site of the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, an Orthodox monastery founded in 1958.

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References

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Parish Council Contacts". www.maldon.gov.uk. October 2006. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2006.