MILE-END
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
MILE-END, or MILE-END-ST. MICHAEL, or MYLAND, a parish in Colchester district, Essex; on the river Colne and on the Great Eastern railway, chiefly N of Colchester r. station, within Colchester borough, and 1¼ mile N of the centre of Colchester town. Post-town, Colchester. Acres, 2,350. Real property, returned with the borough. Pop., 880. Houses, 195. Abbots Hall manor belonged once to the abbots of St. Osyth, and belongs now to Countess Cowper; and the Mile-End-Common was given, by Henry I., to the freemen of Colchester. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £520. Patron, Countess Cowper. The church is a recent structure, in the early English style; and consists of nave, N aisle, chancel, and porch, with tower and spire.
Transcribed by Noel Clark