Lamarsh

Lamarsh
Lamarsh hall and church
Lamarsh is located in Essex
Lamarsh
Lamarsh
Location within Essex
Population187 (2011 Census)
Civil parish
  • Lamarsh
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBures
Postcode districtCO8
Dialling code01787
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
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51°59′14″N 0°45′08″E / 51.9873°N 0.7522°E / 51.9873; 0.7522
Historical map excerpt of the parish of Lamarsh
Total population for Lamarsh, Essex as reported by the Census of Population from 1801 to 2011.
The occupational structure of Lamarsh Civil Parish, Essex, as reported by the 1881 census.

Lamarsh is a village and a civil parish in the Braintree District, in the county of Essex, England. It is near the large village of Bures and the village of Alphamstone. The village is west of the River Stour. It has a pub, a village hall[1] and a church called The Friends of Holy Innocents Church.[2] The civil parish's name, Lamarsh, comes from the phrase "Loamy marsh". This is derived from the Old English terms lām and mersc, which translate into loam or clay and a marsh respectively.[3]

In the 1870s, Lamarsh was described as:

"LAMARSH, a parish, with a village, in the district of Sudbury and county of Essex; adjacent to the river Stour at the boundary with Suffolk, 2½ miles NW of Bures r. station, and 4 SSE of Sudbury."[4]
  1. ^ "Lamarsh Village Hall". www.lamarshchurch.org.uk. Archived from the original on 17 December 2005.
  2. ^ "Home". lamarshchurch.org.uk.
  3. ^ "Key to English Place-names". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  4. ^ Wilson, John Marius (1970). Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fullerton. Retrieved 27 January 2015.