GOLDHANGER, a parish in the hundred of THURSTABLE,
county of ESSEX, 4 miles (E.N.E.) from Maidon,
containing 459 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London,
rated in the king's books at £25. 19. 4. N. Westcombe,
Esq. was patron in 1798. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter. The parish is bounded on the south
by the Blackwater river and Osey island. There are
very extensive salterns, at which the manufacture of salt
from sea-water is carried on with considerable success
by the agency of steam: they are recorded in Domesdaybook
as existing at the time of the Norman survey.