HORKSLEY (LITTLE), a parish in the Colchesterdivision of the hundred of LEXDEN, county of ESSEX, 2½ miles (S W by S) from Nayland, containing 238 inhabitants.The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London, endowed with £1200 royal bounty. Mrs Warren and E C Warren, Esq were patrons in 1825. The church is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. Here was a priory of Cluniac monks, subordinate to the monastery of Thetford in Norfolk, founded in the reign of Henry I by RobertFitz-Godebold, and Beatrix his wife, and valued at the dissolution at £27 7 11 per annum. The navigable river Stour runs along the northern side of this parish.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Little Horkesley baptisms DP 307-1-1 1568-1785
Little Horkesley baptisms DP 307-1-2 1797-1812
Little Horkesley marriages DP 307-1-1 1568-1759
Little Horkesley marriages DP 307-1-2 1757-1811
Little Horkesley burials DP 307-1-1 1568-1784
Little Horkesley burials DP 307-1-2 1797-1812
Further registers for Little Horkesley are included in the FreeReg database.
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