HOLLAND (GREAT)
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
HOLLAND (GREAT), a parish in Tendring district, Essex; on Holland brook and on the coast, 1 mile S of Kirby r. station, 4 SW of Walton steamboat-pier, and 16 ESE of Colchester. Post-town, Kirby-le-Soken, under Colchester. Acres, 2,083; of which 20 are water. Real property, £3,788. Pop., 467. Houses, 101. The manor and the Hall-farm belonged to Samuel Travers, Esq.; and the Hall-farm and rents of other lands in the neighbourhood were left by him for the maintenance of seven superannuated naval lieutenants, who are known as the college of naval knights, Windsor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £700. Patron, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church, with the exception of the tower, was taken down in 1865; and the nave and chancel have been rebuilt, with the addition of a N aisle. A national school was built in 1862.
HOLLAND HAVEN, a small seaport in Great Holland parish, Essex; near a sluice-gate, 4 miles SW by W of Walton-le-Soken. It is a sub-port to Harwich.
Transcribed by Noel Clark