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MARKS-TEY, a parish in Lexden district, Essex; on the Great Eastern railway, at the junction of the line forking to Sudbury and to Halstead, 5 miles W of Colchester. It has a station at the railway junction, and a post office under Colchester. Acres, 1,214. Real property, £2,120. Pop. in 1851,437; in 1861,396. Houses, 82. The property is subdivided. Marks-Tey Hall was an ancient moated mansion, and is now a farm-house. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £234. * Patron, Balliol College, Oxford. The church is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Marks Tey AP/CP Lexden and Winstree RegD/PLU Essex AncC |
Place: | Marks Tey |
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