THORPE-LE-SOKEN, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Tendring district, Essex. The village stands near the Tendring Hundred railway, 12 miles ESE of Colchester; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling place; and has a post-office under Colchester, a police station, and fairs on the Monday before Whitsuntide and on 29 Sept. The parish comprises 3,203 acres. Real property, £6,905. Pop. in 1851, 1,294; in 1861, 1,159. Houses, 261. The property is subdivided. T. Hall is the seat of J. M. Leake, Esq.; and Comarques, of Capt. Runnacles. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £220. Patrons, Trustees. The church is good; and there are a Baptist chapel and a British school.—The sub-district contains 9 parishes. Acres, 24,176. Pop., 5,776. Houses, 1,242.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))