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Essex ou, na sua forma em português, Éssex [1] é um condado da Inglaterra situado no sudeste do Reino Unido, com uma população com cerca de 1 500 000 habitantes. A cidade mais importante de Essex é Chelmsford .
Essex (/ ˈ ɛ s ɪ k s / ESS-iks) is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the south, Greater London to the south-west, and Hertfordshire to the west.
História. Período pré-romano. Anglo-saxões e viquingues. Referências. Bibliografia. História de Essex. Um mapa da circunscrição de Woodford, em Essex, conforme existia de 1945 a 1950. Essex é um condado no leste da Inglaterra, que surgiu como o antigo Reino de Essex, e é um dos sete reinos da Heptarquia anglo-saxã. [ 1] História.
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- Pre-Roman
- Norman Essex
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The name Essex derives from the Kingdom of the East Seaxe or Kingdom of Essex which was traditionally founded by Aescwine in AD 527, occupying territory to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea. In AD 825 it became part of the Kingdom of Wessex and was later ceded under the Treaty of Wedmore to the Danelaw under the Kingdom of Eas...
The county was divided into the hundredsof: 1. Barstable 2. Becontree 3. Chafford 4. Chelmsford 5. Clavering 6. Dengie 7. Dunmow 8. Freshwell 9. Harlow 10. HaveringLiberty 11. Hinkford 12. Lexden 13. Ongar 14. Rochford 15. Tendring 16. Thurstable 17. Uttlesford 18. Waltham 19. Winstree 20. Witham
The area which Essex now occupies was ruled before Roman settlement by the Celtic Trinovantes tribe. A dispute between them and the Catuvellauni was used as an excuse for a Roman invasion in 54 BC, and they allied with Rome when Claudius returned in AD 43. This led to Camulodunum (Colchester) becoming the capital of Roman Britain. The Trinovantes l...
Following the Norman conquest the Saxon kingdom formed the basis of a county in 1139 under the first Earl of Essex, Geoffrey de Mandeville. As a county Essex had administrative, political and legal functions.
Much of the development of the county was caused by the railway. By 1843 the Eastern Counties Railway had connected Bishopsgate station in London with Brentwood and Colchester. In 1856, they opened a branch to Loughton (later extended to Ongar) and by 1884 the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway had connected Fenchurch Street railway station in th...
Much of Essex is protected from development near to its boundary with Greater London and forms part of the Metropolitan Green Belt. In 1949 the new towns of Harlow and Basildon were created. These developments were intended to address the chronic housing shortage in London but were not intended to become dormitory towns, rather it was hoped the tow...
Essex became part of the East of England Government Office Region in 1994 and was statistically counted as part of that region from 1999, having previously been part of the South East England region. In 1998 the boroughs of Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea were given unitary authority status and ceased to be under county council control. They remain pa...
The importance of the Anglo-Saxon culture in Essex was only emphasized by the rich burial discovered at Prittlewell recently. But the important Anglo-Saxon remains in Essex are mostly churches. St.Peter's straddles the wall of a Roman seafort at Bradwell (Othona), and is one of the early Anglo-Saxon, "Kentish" series of churches made famous by its ...
Pevsner (the "Buildings of England" series, Penguin) is the best general introduction to the County's architecture. In the new editions, 'London over the border' will now appear with London: East,...
Essex is a county in the east of England. It has a population of around 1,750,000 people. It is part of the East of England region. Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, as well as being one of three cities in the county alongside Colchester, known to be Britain's first city, and Southend-on-Sea, one of the country's biggest ...
Essex ou, na sua forma em português, Éssex é um condado da Inglaterra situado no sudeste do Reino Unido, com uma população com cerca de 1 500 000 habitantes. A cidade mais importante de Essex é Chelmsford. Outras cidades famosas são Colchester , e Southend, um dos maiores balneários do Reino Unido.
Essex, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England; i.e., that of the East Saxons. An area of early settlement, it probably originally included the territory of the modern county of Middlesex; London was its chief town. Archaeological discoveries suggest that many of the new settlers were.
