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Essex (/ ˈ ɛ s ɪ k s / ESS-iks) is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the south, Greater London to the south-west, and Hertfordshire to the west.
This is a list of towns, villages and most notable hamlets and neighbourhoods in the ceremonial county of Essex (not the historic county A. Abberton ...
As of 2022, there are currently five ceremonial counties which contain three cities – Cambridgeshire (Ely, Cambridge and Peterborough [b]), Essex, Hampshire, West Midlands and West Yorkshire. Outside the UK within British overseas cities of the British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, there are currently five.
This is a list of settlements in Essex by population based on the results of the 2011 census. The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2021 . In 2011, there were 44 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Essex , shown in the table below.
Description: Map of Essex, UK with the following information shown: . Administrative borders; Coastline, lakes and rivers; Roads and railways; Urban areas; Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%
An analysis of Domesday returns for Essex has shown that the Forest of Essex was mostly farmland, and that the county as a whole was 20% wooded in 1086. [ 47 ] Chelmsford began growing into a major market town following the Norman conquest, with a bridge over the River Can built by Maurice, Bishop of London in c. 1100, and the town's royal ...
Grays (or Grays Thurrock) [1] is the largest town in the borough and unitary authority area of Thurrock, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England.The town, which is both a former civil parish and one of Thurrock's traditional Church of England parishes, is located on the north bank of the River Thames.
Pages in category "Towns in Essex" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aveley; B. Basildon;