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Thorpe-le-Soken is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is located east of Colchester , west of Walton-on-the-Naze and Frinton-on-Sea , and north of Clacton-on-Sea .
The station was opened with the name Thorpe by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the Great Eastern Railway, on 28 July 1866 on the Tendring Hundred Extension Railway line. It was renamed Thorpe-le-Soken on 1 March 1900. [2] It has two platforms forming an island platform that is accessible via a footbridge. There is a clearly ...
Much of the soken court's business was taken away by the Probate and Matrimonial Causes acts of 1857. From the 16th century onwards, the court generally sat in Thorpe church. The last session was held in 1861. The last commissary was William Burgess, in office from 1823-1862. He was also vicar of all three parishes. [8]
The Thorpe Manor estate belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. [1] In 1723 it was bought by Stephen Martin who assumed the name and arms of Leake upon inheriting an estate from Admiral Sir John Leake; it remained in the Leake family – the most recent manor house was built between 1822 and 1825 for John Martin Leake – until 1913 when it was ...
Comarques is an 18th-century country house in Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England. It has been attributed to the architect, Sir Robert Taylor. Named after Captain Comarque, a Huguenot refugee who owned the estate in the early 18th century, the house is in the Queen Anne style. The author Arnold Bennett lived at Comarques between 1913 and 1921.
In the extreme east of the district is an area formerly known as the Soken which was granted special privileges in Saxon times. It is remembered in the place names Kirby-le-Soken, Thorpe-le-Soken and Walton-le-Soken (an older name for Walton-on-the-Naze).
Horsey Island is an island in the parish of Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex. [1] It lies in Hamford Water and is part of the Hamford Water National Nature Reserve, managed by Natural England . Permission is required to visit.
Thorpe Hall (Peterborough), 17th century mansion in Cambridgeshire, England; Thorpe Hall (Thorpe-le-Soken), former manor and 19th century villa in Essex, England; Thorpe Hall (Thorpe Salvin), ruins of Grade II* listed 16th century manor house in South Yorkshire, England; Thorpe Hall School, independent school in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England