The three surviving wills and inventories, all from the 1570s, reflect a mixed agricultural community.
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.
Fan bridge is the second earliest rcorded crossing point on the river now known as Holland Brook (formerly Holland River).
The Gunfleet was the name of the large estuary fed by the Holland River or brook, which formerly ran into the sea between Frinton and Little Hollan
