Messing, Essex
| Messing | |
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 The Old Crown | |
  Messing Location within Essex | |
| Population | 300 (around)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TL887617 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Messing is a village in the civil parish of Messing-cum-Inworth in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. It lies 14 miles (23 km) north east of Chelmsford,[2] The village has a population of around 300.
Features
Messing has a church called All Saints[3] and a pub called The Old Crown.[4]
History
The name "Messing" means 'Maecca's people'.[5][6] Messing was recorded in the Domesday Book as Metcinges.[7]
Messing was an ancient parish in the Lexden hundred of Essex. The parish was effectively abolished in 1934; the southern end of the parish was added to the new parish of Tiptree, a small area was transferred to Layer Marney, and almost all the remainder merged with Inworth to form a new civil parish called Messing-cum-Inworth.[8] It subsequently emerged that the plans accompanying the 1934 order had failed to account for one 3 acre field from the old Messing parish north of Cantfield Farm. Having not been assigned to any other parish, this field continued to be the parish of Messing, which had therefore not been completely abolished as intended in 1934.[9] An inquiry in 1937 recommended adding this uninhabited single field parish of Messing to the neighbouring parish of Birch;[10] a recommendation which was eventually put into effect in 1946, finally abolishing Messing parish.[8] At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), Messing had a population of 929.[11]
References
- ^ "About Messing Village". Messing Primary School. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Distance from Messing [51.835618, 0.750509]". GENUKI. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "All Saints, Messing Church, Essex". Essex Churches. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "About". The Old Crown Messing. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Messing Key to English Place-names". The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, pp.323 and 318.
- ^ "Essex L-O". The Domesday Book Online. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Relationships and Changes Messing AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Diagram of Essex showing administrative boundaries, 1943". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ^ "Local Inquiries". Essex Newsman. Chelmsford. 4 December 1937. p. 2. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ^ "Population Statistics Messing AP/CP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
External links
Media related to Messing at Wikimedia Commons
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