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Gestingthorpe
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Gestingthorpe (pronounced , sometimes spelled 'guesstingthorpe') is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is approximately halfway between the towns of Halstead in Essex and Sudbury in Suffolk. The village is situated at a set of crossroads: North End Road, Nether Hill, Sudbury Road, and Church Street. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 397.
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Place details
- Locality
- Braintree
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.post_town
- HALSTEAD
- UK place.static_image
- St Mary's Church, Gestingthorpe, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 104801.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Mary's Church
- UK place.official_name
- Gestingthorpe
- UK place.civil_parish
- Gestingthorpe
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.postcode_area
- CO
- UK place.postcode_district
- CO9
- UK place.shire_district
- Braintree
- UK place.shire_county
- Essex
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.hide_services
- Yes
- UK place.population
- 397
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
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- Population
- 421
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- Gestingthorpe
- P8168
- Manny Charlton
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Gestingthorpe (pronounced , sometimes spelled 'guesstingthorpe') is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is approximately halfway between the towns of Halstead in Essex and Sudbury in Suffolk. The village is situated at a set of crossroads: North End Road, Nether Hill, Sudbury Road, and Church Street. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 397.
In the 19th century, the Manor of Over Hall in Gestingthorpe was the home of the Oates family, whose most famous son, the Antarctic explorer Captain Lawrence Oates, who died on the return journey from the South Pole in 1912. He was born in Putney, London, on 16 March 1880. The Oates were originally a West Riding of Yorkshire family until they succeeded to the manor. In 1913, his brother officers erected a memorial to Captain Oates in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin.
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