Salcott
Sign in to saveAlso known as Salcot, Salcott-cum-Virley, Salcott cum Virley, Salcott-cum-Virley, Essex
Salcott is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. Salcott closely adjoins the neighbouring village of Virley of the opposite side of Virley Brook; they are sometimes described as a single village of Salcott-cum-Virley. They have formed a single ecclesiastical parish called Salcott Virley since 1879. Salcott is adjacent to Tolleshunt Knights, Tollesbury and Great Wigborough, near Tiptree. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 263. Salcott shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parishes of Great and Little Wigborough, Peldon, a
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Salcott
- UK place.civil_parish
- Salcott
- UK place.population
- 263
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.shire_district
- Colchester
- UK place.shire_county
- Essex
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Witham
- UK place.post_town
- Maldon
- UK place.postcode_district
- CM9
- UK place.postcode_area
- CM
- UK place.dial_code
- 01621
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TL 950 135
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary The Virgin, Salcott-cum-Virley - geograph.org.uk - 128753.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Mary's Church
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Salcott is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. Salcott closely adjoins the neighbouring village of Virley of the opposite side of Virley Brook; they are sometimes described as a single village of Salcott-cum-Virley. They have formed a single ecclesiastical parish called Salcott Virley since 1879. Salcott is adjacent to Tolleshunt Knights, Tollesbury and Great Wigborough, near Tiptree. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 263. Salcott shares a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parishes of Great and Little Wigborough, Peldon, and Virley, called the Winstred Hundred Parish Council.
==History== The name Salcott is believed to come from "salt cote", linked to the historic industry of salt extraction on the adjacent marshes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salcott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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