HORKSLEY (GREAT), a parish in the Colchester
division of the hundred of LEXDEN, county of ESSEX,
1 mile (S.S.W.) from Nayland, containing 623 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Colchester, and diocese of London, rated in the
king's books at £15. The Countess de Grey was paHOR
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troness in 1817. The church is dedicated to AH Saints.
The navigable river Stour runs on the northern side of
this parish.