Latchingdon

Latchingdon is a village situated in the Dengie Peninsula in Essex, England, south of the city of Chelmsford. The parish was at one time called Latchingdon-cum-Snoreham, and Snoreham Hall still exists to the south of Latchingdon.

Latchingdon

The village sign at Latchingdon. The street
in the background is Buchanan Way.
Latchingdon
Location within Essex
Population1,241 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceTL885005
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townChelmsford
Postcode districtCM3
Dialling code01621
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament

The place-name 'Latchingdon' is first attested in 1065 in a charter later published in the Diplomatarium anglicum edited by Benjamin Thorpe, where it appears as Laecedune. It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Lacenduna, Lachenduna and Lessenduna. The name may derive from an unrecorded Old English word *læcce from the verb læccan to catch, meaning a trap, and related to the modern word 'latch'. The name would then mean 'hill with a trap', presumably to catch animals.[2]

Churches

The village's Christ Church, built in 1857, features an Essex bell-cote.

St Michael's Church was built in 1618, but its use was limited once Christ Church was built in the centre of the village, and it was deconsecrated in 1976.

A Congregational Church was also built in the village, but it closed and is now a private house.

Latchingdon and Snoreham Poor

Under the Poor Law of 1834, Latchingdon and Snoreham became part of the Maldon Union.

Parish Council

Latchingdon Parish Council meets monthly at Latchingdon village hall.

References
  1. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  2. Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.289.
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