BRIGHTLINGSEA, a parish in the hundred of
TENDRING, county of ESSEX, 9 miles (S. E.) from Colchester,
containing 1528 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Colchester,
and diocese of London, rated in the-king's books at
£17. 0. 5.,'endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop
of .London. The church, which is situated about
a mile and a half from the village, is dedicated to All
Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The parish constitutes a peninsula, tformed
by the actuary of the river Colne on1 the west, and
that of a smaller river on the east. There is a trifling
endowment for parochial schools.