ELMSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of TENDRING,
county of ESSEX, 4 miles (E. by N.) from Colchester,
containing 693 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese
of London, rated in the Icing's books at £ 8, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Jesus
College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Anne.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The river Coin forms a boundary to the parish, which is
crossed by a Roman road, called Stone-street. There is
a fair for toys on the 15th of May.