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Economic

The three surviving wills and inventories, all from the 1570s, reflect a mixed agricultural community.

Walton was one of the chief places for the production of Copperas or green vitriol (ferrous sulphate), which was used for a variety of purposes inc

Barton's Pans lie immediately behind the line of the sea wall built by the Tendring Level Commissioners across the mouth of the Gunfleet estuary.

Responsibility for sea defence and drainage in coastal regions since the early thirteenth century had been allocated to ad hoc Commissions

The Holland Brook, sometimes called the Holland River, has been rather overlooked as an important landscape feature of Tendring Hundred (the older

Holland bridge is the most recent bridge to cross the Holland River (or Holland Brook), and the furthest downstream.

Rice bridge is the earliest recorded crossing point on the river now known as the Holland Brook, and one of the furthest inland. It was in existenc

Fan bridge is the second earliest rcorded crossing point on the river now known as Holland Brook (formerly Holland River).

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