Tolleshunt Knights
| Tolleshunt Knights | |
|---|---|
All Saints’ Church, Tolleshunt Knights | |
Tolleshunt Knights Location within Essex | |
| Population | 1,059 (Parish, 2021)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TL916150 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MALDON |
| Postcode district | CM9 |
| Post town | COLCHESTER |
| Postcode district | CO5 |
| Dialling code | 01621 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Tolleshunt Knights is a village and civil parish in the Maldon District of Essex, England. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,059.
History
The name Tolleshunt originates from the Anglo-Saxon Tolleshunta which means Toll's spring. Toll was an Anglo-Saxon chief who settled in large areas of forest, establishing clearings where water was readily available,[2] and Tolleshunt Knights is one of a group of four resulting villages (Tolleshunt Major, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Tollesbury Knights and Tollesbury), three of which bear the surnames of their early Norman French landowners (the Majeur, D'Arcy and Le Chevalier families).[3]
Prior to the parish of Tiptree being created in 1934, much of the Tiptree Heath area was within the parish of Tolleshunt Knights.[4]
Amenities
The village is the site of the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, an Orthodox monastic community for men and women founded in 1958 by St Saphrony, one of the most noted ascetic monks of the 20th century.[5].
Tolleshunt Knights Parish Council meets at the village hall on Top Road.[6]
References
- ^ "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
- ^ Essex Federation of Women's Institutes (2002). The Essex Village Book. Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1-85306-685-6.
- ^ "History of Tolleshunt Knights". Tolleshunt Knights Parish Council. 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ "Tolleshunt Knights". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
- ^ Sakharov, Nicholas V. (2002). I Love, Therefore I Am: The Theological Legacy of Archimandrite Sophrony. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir's Seminary Press. p. 11. ISBN 0881412368.
- ^ "Tolleshunt Knights Parish Council". Retrieved 12 November 2025.
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