CLACTON (GREAT)
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
, a parish in Tendring district, Essex; on the coast, 9 miles SE by E of Wivenhoe r. station, and 13 SE of Colchester. It has a post-office under Colchester, and a fair on 29 June. Acres, 4,280; of which 235 are water. Real property, £7,405. Pop., 1280. Houses, 284. The property is much subdivided. Clacton Wash is a coast-guard station; and Clacton Cliff has a signal-house and martello towers. The living is a vicarage, united with the donative of Little Holland, in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £307. Patron, F. Nassau, Esq. The church is good.
Transcribed by Noel Clark