GREENSTEAD, a parish within the liberty of COLCHESTER,
though locally in the Colchester
division of the hundred of Lexden, county of
ESSEX, 1 mile (E.) from Colchester, containing 510
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the
king's books at £5, and in the patronage of the Crown.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The navigable
river Colne bounds the parish on the west.