Goldhanger is a village and a civil parish on the B1026 road in the Maldon District, in the English county of Essex.
| Goldhanger | |
|---|---|
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  Goldhanger Location within Essex | |
| Population | 654 (2011)[1] |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Maldon |
| Postcode district | CM9 |
| Dialling code | 01621 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Goldhanger had an agricultural museum[2] and has a church dedicated to St Peter. Goldhanger is at the head of a short creek, on the north side of the estuary of the River Blackwater, 4 miles (6.4 km) east northeast of the town of Maldon.
There are eight roads in Goldhanger: Head Street, Fish Street, Church Street, St Peter's Close, Maldon Road, Hall Estate, Sorrell Close, and finally Blind Lane.
The village is directly between Maldon and Tolleshunt D'Arcy and also has direct passage to the River Blackwater.
The place-name Goldhanger is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Goldhangra. The name means 'slope where marigold grew', from the Old English golde meaning marigold.[3]
Notable people
edit- John Christopher Atkinson (1814-1900), writer and antiquary
- Jeremy Bamber (b. 1961), farmer, convicted of the White House Farm murders, lived in Goldhanger[4]
References
edit- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ^ "Museums in Essex". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.200.
- ^ Wilkes, Roger (4 June 2020). Blood Relations: The Definitive Account of Jeremy Bamber and the White House Farm Murders. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-1-4721-4519-2.
External links
editMedia related to Goldhanger at Wikimedia Commons
