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Earls Colne Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Earls Colne

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Earls Colne history

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Manor of Earls Colne

In the time of Edward the Confessor Earls Colne belonged to a Saxon noble named Wulfwine also recorded as Ulwin/Ulwine. Ulwin’s whole estate was given to Aubrey de Vere by William the Conqueror. The Earls had an ancient mansion called Hall Place near the site of the present Ashwells in Park Lane.

Village records

Earls Colne is one of the best recorded villages in the UK. It has been the subject of a study undertaken between 1972 and 2002 by Professor Alan Macfarlane and his team from the University of Cambridge. The resulting database contains a large part of the surviving records of the parish over the period 1380–1854.

R. Hunt and Company Limited – Atlas Works

In 1824 Robert Hunt set up a millwrighting and wheelwrighting shop and smithy in Earls Colne, Cambridgeshire. The Atlas Works became the major employer in the village by 1900 employing approximately half of the male working population of the village. After exhibiting at the Royal Agricultural Show in 1851 the company’s products gained a country-wide recognition.

Earls Colne Industrial Co-operative Society

The Earls Colne Co-op was one of the last remaining independent village co-operative societies in Essex and Suffolk. It was founded in 1884 in the front room of a cottage in High Street. The current store occupies a building dating to between 1480 and 1510.

Earls Colne landmarks

The Earls Colne Heritage Museum occupies The Old Water Tower, Reuben Hunt Walk which was the former water tower of the Atlas Works, the home of R Hunt & Company. The main sections of the permanent exhibition comprise the Domesday Book, Colne Priory, The 1598 Map by Israel Amyce, The Diary of the Reverend Ralph Josselin, The Victorian Era, The Atlas Works and the Hunt Family.

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15 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Earls Colne places to visit

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Earls Colne has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Earls Colne’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Earls Colne’s information audio spots:

Marks Hall Marks Hall was a Jacobean country house some 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Coggeshall in Essex. Previously a timber manor house, the 17th-century brick building was demolished in 1950.

Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural is a civil parish in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. The parish includes the village of Greenstead Green, the hamlet of Burton’s Green, Plaistow Green and Whiteash Green. In 2011 the parish had a population of 670.

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