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Coggeshall
Coggeshall (/ˈkɒksəl/ or /ˈkɒɡɪʃəl/) is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It lies between Braintree and Colchester on the Roman road of Stane Street and the River Blackwater. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 4,660 and the built up area had a population of 3,810.
It has almost 300 listed buildings and a market whose charter was granted in 1256 by King Henry III.
The meaning the name of Coggeshall is uncertain. The -hall indicates a nook of land or a small valley, but there are conflicting theories as to the meaning of the first part of the name. Different pronunciations and spellings have been used throughout its history. The name appears as Kockeshale around the year 1060. while the first element may be an Old English personal name (Cocc or Cogg). Margaret Gelling associated the name Coggeshall with the landscape in which it is situated, believing that -hall comes from Anglo-Saxon healh, meaning a nook or hollow, thus rendering the name as "Cogg's nook" (with Cogg as a proper name), corresponding to Coggeshall's sunken position in the 150-foot contour line.
The Domesday Book from 1086 addresses the village as Cogheshala and it is mentioned elsewhere as Cogshall, Coxal, Coggashæl'' and Gogshall. Coggeshall has also been called Sunnydon, referenced in 1224 as an alias for the village.
Beaumont brought together several theories for the name in his 1890 book A History of Coggeshall, in Essex.
Coggeshall dates back at least to an early Saxon settlement, though the area has been settled since the Mesolithic period. There is evidence of a Roman villa or settlement (Noviomagus Icenorum) before then and the town lies on Stane Street, which may have been built on a much earlier track. The drainage aqueducts of Stane Street are still visible in the cellar of the Chapel Inn today. Roman coins dating from 31 BC to AD 395 have been found in the area and Coggeshall has been considered the site of a Roman station mentioned in the Itineraries of Antoninus. Coggeshall is situated at a ford of the River Blackwater, part of another path running from the Blackwater Valley to the Colne Valley. Where these paths crossed a settlement started.
The vill of Coggeshall is mentioned as Cogheshala in the Domesday Book of 1086 within the Witham hundred of Essex. The vill was subdivided into three manors, each in different ownership, the most valuable of which was owned by Eustace, Count of Boulogne, who had acquired that manor since the Norman Conquest. At that time, Coggeshall had "a mill; about 60 men with ploughs and horses, oxen and sheep; woodland with swine and a swineherd, four stocks of bees and one priest".
A priest was mentioned in the Domesday Book, suggesting Coggeshall was already a parish. The parish church, dedicated to St Peter ad Vincula ("St Peter in chains"), was rebuilt in the 15th century.
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Coggeshall
Coggeshall (/ˈkɒksəl/ or /ˈkɒɡɪʃəl/) is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It lies between Braintree and Colchester on the Roman road of Stane Street and the River Blackwater. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 4,660 and the built up area had a population of 3,810.
It has almost 300 listed buildings and a market whose charter was granted in 1256 by King Henry III.
The meaning the name of Coggeshall is uncertain. The -hall indicates a nook of land or a small valley, but there are conflicting theories as to the meaning of the first part of the name. Different pronunciations and spellings have been used throughout its history. The name appears as Kockeshale around the year 1060. while the first element may be an Old English personal name (Cocc or Cogg). Margaret Gelling associated the name Coggeshall with the landscape in which it is situated, believing that -hall comes from Anglo-Saxon healh, meaning a nook or hollow, thus rendering the name as "Cogg's nook" (with Cogg as a proper name), corresponding to Coggeshall's sunken position in the 150-foot contour line.
The Domesday Book from 1086 addresses the village as Cogheshala and it is mentioned elsewhere as Cogshall, Coxal, Coggashæl'' and Gogshall. Coggeshall has also been called Sunnydon, referenced in 1224 as an alias for the village.
Beaumont brought together several theories for the name in his 1890 book A History of Coggeshall, in Essex.
Coggeshall dates back at least to an early Saxon settlement, though the area has been settled since the Mesolithic period. There is evidence of a Roman villa or settlement (Noviomagus Icenorum) before then and the town lies on Stane Street, which may have been built on a much earlier track. The drainage aqueducts of Stane Street are still visible in the cellar of the Chapel Inn today. Roman coins dating from 31 BC to AD 395 have been found in the area and Coggeshall has been considered the site of a Roman station mentioned in the Itineraries of Antoninus. Coggeshall is situated at a ford of the River Blackwater, part of another path running from the Blackwater Valley to the Colne Valley. Where these paths crossed a settlement started.
The vill of Coggeshall is mentioned as Cogheshala in the Domesday Book of 1086 within the Witham hundred of Essex. The vill was subdivided into three manors, each in different ownership, the most valuable of which was owned by Eustace, Count of Boulogne, who had acquired that manor since the Norman Conquest. At that time, Coggeshall had "a mill; about 60 men with ploughs and horses, oxen and sheep; woodland with swine and a swineherd, four stocks of bees and one priest".
A priest was mentioned in the Domesday Book, suggesting Coggeshall was already a parish. The parish church, dedicated to St Peter ad Vincula ("St Peter in chains"), was rebuilt in the 15th century.