Fingringhoe
| Fingringhoe | |
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 St. Andrew's church, Fingringhoe | |
  Fingringhoe Location within Essex | |
| Population | 770 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TM029203 |
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| District | |
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| 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 |
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.[3] The name means "hill-spur of the Fingringas", a tribal name denoting the "people who dwell on the finger of land".[4] It has frequently appeared on lists of unusual place-names.[5]
Geography
[edit]Fingringhoe Wick
[edit]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.[3]
History
[edit]Roman port
[edit]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).[6][7] 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.[8]
Middle Ages
[edit]A manor located at Fingringhoe was donated by Henry I of England to the Norman abbey of Saint-Ouen at Rouen.[9]
Monuments
[edit]St Andrew's Church
[edit]A prominent feature in the centre of the village, the north wall of St Andrew's Church dates back to the 12th century.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
- ^ "FPC".
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-521-16855-7.
- ^ 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]
- ^ "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
- ^ 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)
- ^ "Fingringhoe Wick (Beacon) Port". Roman Britain. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ^ Véronique Gazeau, Normannia monastica: Prosopographie des abbés bénédictins (Xe siècle-XIIe siècle), Publications du CRAHM, Caen, 2007.
- ^ 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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