Latchingdon
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Latchingdon is a village situated on the Dengie Peninsula in Essex, England, south of the city of Chelmsford. The parish was at one time called Latchingdon-cum-Snoreham, and Snoreham Hall still exists to the south of Latchingdon. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,407.
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Place details
- Locality
- Maldon
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,182
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image
- Latchingdon Sign - geograph.org.uk - 130393.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The village sign at Latchingdon. The street in the background is Buchanan Way.
- UK place.official_name
- Latchingdon
- UK place.population
- 1,407
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.shire_district
- Maldon
- UK place.shire_county
- Essex
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Maldon and East Chelmsford
- UK place.post_town
- Chelmsford
- UK place.postcode_district
- CM3
- UK place.postcode_area
- CM
- UK place.dial_code
- 01621
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TL885005
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1241
- Image
- Latchingdon Sign - geograph.org.uk - 130393.jpg
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- Commons category
- Latchingdon
- OS grid reference
- TL885005
- P8168
- FK Vojvodina
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Article
5 sectionsContents
- Churches
- Latchingdon and Snoreham Poor
- Parish Council
- References
- External links
Latchingdon is a village situated on the Dengie Peninsula in Essex, England, south of the city of Chelmsford. The parish was at one time called Latchingdon-cum-Snoreham, and Snoreham Hall still exists to the south of Latchingdon. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,407.
The place-name 'Latchingdon' is first attested in 1065 in a charter later published in the Diplomatarium anglicum edited by Benjamin Thorpe, where it appears as Laecedune. It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Lacenduna, Lachenduna and Lessenduna. The name may derive from an unrecorded Old English word *læcce from the verb læccan to catch, meaning a trap, and related to the modern word 'latch'. The name would then mean 'hill with a trap', presumably to catch animals.
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