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Thorpe-le-Soken
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Thorpe-le-Soken is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is located east of Colchester, west of Walton-on-the-Naze and Frinton-on-Sea, and north of Clacton-on-Sea. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,273.
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Place details
- Locality
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,394
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.official_name
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- UK place.shire_district
- Tendring
- UK place.shire_county
- Essex
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Thorpe-Le-Soken village sign.jpg
- UK place.population
- 2,273
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Clacton
- UK place.post_town
- CLACTON-ON-SEA
- UK place.postcode_district
- CO16
- UK place.postcode_area
- CO
- UK place.dial_code
- 01255
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TM178223
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Tendring
- Population
- 1961
- Image
- St Michael Thorpe-Le-Soken bell tower.jpg
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- Commons category
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- postal code
- CO16
- OS grid reference
- TM178223
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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- Notable residents
- References
- External links
Thorpe-le-Soken is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is located east of Colchester, west of Walton-on-the-Naze and Frinton-on-Sea, and north of Clacton-on-Sea. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,273.
==History== Since 2002, archaeological investigations ahead of construction work have uncovered traces of Palaeolithic (early Clactonian 424,000-400,000 BC), Mesolithic, early Neolithic and Roman rural settlements. Thorpe-le-Soken's contiguous history can be traced back to Saxon times. In , King Æthelstan confirmed the grant of Eduluesnaesa – combined estate of Kirby, Thorpe and Walton – to St Paul’s. Soken meaning a jurisdiction with separate taxation and managerial responsibilities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thorpe-le-Soken” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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