Kirby le Soken, Essex

Description
Kirby-le-Soken, a village and a parish in Essex. Tile-village stands on a creek of Hanford Water, 2 1/2 miles W by N of Walton steamboat pier, and 12 by road SSW of Harwich; it has a station on the Tendring Hundred branch of the G.E.R., and a post office under Colchester; money order-office, Kirby Cross; telegraph office, Walton-on-the-Naze. The telegraph office for Kirby Cross is Frinton-on-Sea. The parish includes the hamlets of Kirby Cross, Sneating, and Upper Street, the islands of Horsey, Pewett, and Skippers, and some smaller islands and marshes on the N£ Acreage, 3874 of land and 952 of water and foreshore;. population, 839. Sneating Hall is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £146 with residence. The church is a building of flint and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N porch, and an embattled W tower, in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular styles. It was restored in 1870-73. There are-Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.