RAMSEY, a parish in the hundred of TENDRING,
county of ESSEX, 3 miles (W.S.W.) from Harwich, containing
676 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese
of London, rated in the king's books at £15, and in
the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Michael. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. The river Stour is navigable here
for vessels of two hundred and fifty tons' burden. At
the lower part of Ramsey creek, which is crossed by a
bridge on the London and Harwich road, an embankment
has been made, to check the encroachments of the
tide, upon five hundred acres of marsh land, gained from
the sea within the last twenty years. Thomas Darall,
in 1771, founded a free school, the annual income of
which is about £14.