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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stanway All Saints like this:
STANWAY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Lexden district, Essex. The village stands 1 mile E of Marks-Tey r. station, and 4 W by S of Colchester; and has a post-office under Colchester. The parish contains Lexden workhouse, and comprises 3,368 acres. Real property, £5,611. Pop., 964. ...
Houses, 157. The property is divided among a few. S. Hall is the seat of G. De Horne, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £738.* Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is good; and there is a national school. See Stanway-All Saints.—The sub-district contains 9 parishes. Acres, 17,338. Pop., 4,663. Houses, 918.
Stanway All Saints is now part of COLCHESTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how COLCHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stanway All Saints itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stanway All Saints, in Colchester and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25984
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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