Fingringhoe

Fingringhoe
Fingringhoe
	St. Andrew's church, Fingringhoe
	Fingringhoe Location within Essex
Population	770 (2011)
OS grid reference	TM029203
Civil parish	Fingringhoe ;
District	City of Colchester;
Shire county	Essex;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Colchester
Postcode district	CO5
Dialling code	01206
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Harwich and North Essex;
Website	fingringhoe.info
	List of places UK England Essex 51°50′38″N 0°56′49″E / 51.844°N 0.947°E

Fingringhoe is a village and civil parish in the City of Colchester district of Essex, England. The centre of the village is classified as a conservation area, featuring a traditional village pond and red telephone box. The Roman River flows nearby before entering the River Colne.^[3] The name means "hill-spur of the Fingringas", a tribal name denoting the "people who dwell on the finger of land".^[4] It has frequently appeared on lists of unusual place-names.^[5]

Geography

Fingringhoe Wick

Fingringhoe is locally known for its salt marshes, which provide habitats for many birds and salt-water animals. These form part of the Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve managed by Essex Wildlife Trust.^[3]

History

Roman port

During the 1st Century AD Fingringhoe was home to a river port which serviced the nearby provincial capital of Roman Britain at Camulodunum (modern Colchester).^[6]^[7] Given the lack of a known road between Fingringhoe and Colchester, it is likely that seagoing vessels stopped in Fingringhoe, where their cargo was transferred to smaller riverboats.^[8]

Middle Ages

A manor located at Fingringhoe was donated by Henry I of England to the Norman abbey of Saint-Ouen at Rouen.^[9]

Trivia

Fingringhoe is mentioned in Lemon Jelly's "Ramblin' Man" and is in the top 20 list of "rude names" from the book Rude Britain.

Fingringhoe is one of many British towns and villages referenced in Karl Marx's Das Kapital as part of "Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation".^[10]

In 2009, an unexploded World War Two bomb was disarmed in the village.

Monuments

St Andrew's Church

A prominent feature in the centre of the village, the north wall of St Andrew's Church dates back to the 12th century.^[11]

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
^ "FPC".
^ ^a ^b M.P.B. Fautley; J.H. Garon (1 July 2004). Essex Coastline: Then and Now. Matthew Fautley. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-9548010-0-7. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-521-16855-7.
^ Parker, Quentin (2010). Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15: An insider's guide to 201 of the world's weirdest and wildest places. Adams Media. pp. ix. ISBN 9781440507397.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Iron-Age and Roman Colchester", A History of the County of Essex: Volume 9: The Borough of Colchester (1994): 2-18, Janet Cooper, C R Elrington (Editors), A P Baggs, Beryl Board, Philip Crummy, Claude Dove, Shirley Durgan, N R Goose, R B Pugh, Pamela Studd, C C Thornton.. British History Online. Web. 01 June 2014
^ Crummy, Philip (1997) City of Victory; the story of Colchester - Britain's first Roman town. Published by Colchester Archaeological Trust (ISBN 1 897719 04 3)
^ "Fingringhoe Wick (Beacon) Port". Roman Britain. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
^ Véronique Gazeau, Normannia monastica: Prosopographie des abbés bénédictins (Xe siècle-XIIe siècle), Publications du CRAHM, Caen, 2007.
^ Marx, Karl (15 December 2009). Das Kapital. Translated by Moore, Samuel; Aveling, Edward. MobileReference. p. 853. ISBN 978-1-60501-933-8. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
^ James Bettley; Nikolaus Pevsner (2 August 2007). Essex. Yale University Press. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-300-11614-4. Retrieved 17 July 2012.

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[1] "Civil Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.

[2] "FPC".

[FautleyGaron2004-3] M.P.B. Fautley; J.H. Garon (1 July 2004). Essex Coastline: Then and Now. Matthew Fautley. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-9548010-0-7. Retrieved 17 July 2012.

[4] Watts, Victor, ed. (2010). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-521-16855-7.

[5] Parker, Quentin (2010). Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15: An insider's guide to 201 of the world's weirdest and wildest places. Adams Media. pp. ix. ISBN 9781440507397.^{[permanent dead link]}

[6] "Iron-Age and Roman Colchester", A History of the County of Essex: Volume 9: The Borough of Colchester (1994): 2-18, Janet Cooper, C R Elrington (Editors), A P Baggs, Beryl Board, Philip Crummy, Claude Dove, Shirley Durgan, N R Goose, R B Pugh, Pamela Studd, C C Thornton.. British History Online. Web. 01 June 2014

[7] Crummy, Philip (1997) City of Victory; the story of Colchester - Britain's first Roman town. Published by Colchester Archaeological Trust (ISBN 1 897719 04 3)

[8] "Fingringhoe Wick (Beacon) Port". Roman Britain. Retrieved 16 June 2023.

[9] Véronique Gazeau, Normannia monastica: Prosopographie des abbés bénédictins (Xe siècle-XIIe siècle), Publications du CRAHM, Caen, 2007.

[(Translator)2009-10] Marx, Karl (15 December 2009). Das Kapital. Translated by Moore, Samuel; Aveling, Edward. MobileReference. p. 853. ISBN 978-1-60501-933-8. Retrieved 17 July 2012.

[BettleyPevsner2007-11] James Bettley; Nikolaus Pevsner (2 August 2007). Essex. Yale University Press. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-300-11614-4. Retrieved 17 July 2012.

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