Tiptree
Sign in to saveTiptree is a large village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is situated south-west of Colchester and around north-east of London. Surrounding villages include Messing, Tolleshunt Knights, Tolleshunt Major, Layer Marney, Inworth, Birch, Great Braxted, Great Totham and Little Totham. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 9,628 and the built up area had a population of 9,300.
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Messing Maypole mill.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Messing Maypole mill
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Tiptree
- UK place.civil_parish
- Tiptree
- UK place.population
- 9,628
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)9,300 (Built up area, 2021)
- UK place.shire_district
- City of Colchester
- UK place.shire_county
- Essex
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Witham
- UK place.post_town
- COLCHESTER
- UK place.postcode_district
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Colchester
- Population
- +9182
- Image
- Messing Maypole mill.jpg
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Tiptree is a large village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It is situated south-west of Colchester and around north-east of London. Surrounding villages include Messing, Tolleshunt Knights, Tolleshunt Major, Layer Marney, Inworth, Birch, Great Braxted, Great Totham and Little Totham. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 9,628 and the built up area had a population of 9,300.
==History== The area was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "woodland for swine" as part of the Great Forest of Essex, until the 1200s when King John ordered deforestation. An area of over 1,000 acres of wasteland became known as the land of heath and thief frequented by smugglers, vagabonds and thieves. From records and maps the following were names for the area: Tipentrie, Typpetre, Tippetre, Typeltre, Typetre, Tiptre Heth, Tiptree Comon and heath. The name could mean "Tippa's tree". or the town of the Prior of Tipper, the celtic term for town being try and a Prior of Tiptree Priory or house having been given licence to impark sixty acres of his own soil within the Forest of Essex.