Description
Fingringhoe, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands on the river Roman, near its influx to the Colne, 1 1/2 mile W by S of Wivenhoe station on the G.E.R., and 4 SSE of Colchester, and has a post office under Colchester; money order and telegraph office, Rowhedge. The parish comprises 2558 acres of land and 433 of foreshore and water; population of the civil parish, 519; of the ecclesiastical, 661. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £150. The church, a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, has some ancient brasses and monuments. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. South Green is a hamlet 1 mile S of the village.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
