ALTHORNE, a parish in the hundred of DENGIE,
county of ESSEX, 4 miles (N. W.) from Burnham,
containing 352 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, united
to the rectory of Creeksea in 1811, in the archdeaconry
of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's
books at £14, and endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated
to St. Andrew. The festuary of the river Crouch
is in this parish, in which there are very strong embankments,
which are about nine feet high, intended to
protect the low lands from inundation, constructed by
labourers from Holland, whose descendants are still resident
here.