Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SALCOTT

SALCOTT, a parish in Lexden district, Essex; on acreek of the Blackwater estuary, 7½ miles S E of Kelvedon r. station. Post-town, Kelvedon. Acres, 255. Real property, £912. Pop., 188. Houses, 41. The property is divided among a few. Part of the land is salt marsh. A fair is held on 4 Sept. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £125. Patron, the Rev. W. T. Bullock. The church is early English.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Salcot AP/CP       Lexden and Winstree RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place: Salcot

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