Operation Excalibur

[campion]

 As I can only type with a single digit, I end up resembling ET and have to wait for the circulation to return to my fingers.

[HMEssex]

I started writing a thread called Bamber Country some time ago, as the appeal decision was coming up I stopped posting on that thread and concentrated my effort on the appeal which unsurprisingly came to bugger all, as is to be expected when the CCRC is that bent. So since then I have continued to investigate the rest of the district that covers Bamber Country, I agree it is not case related but as the places include Bamber residences including WHF, Goldhanger where he used to live and various other villages where he would have gone to as part of his day to day life, I apologise to purists who are only interested directly in the case but most of the threads on here normally take a direction away from the intended theme. The next place Bamber Country was going was Mersea Island, then it was going to finish at Tolleshunt D'arcy And WHF. Mersea Island threw up something incredible....

Don't apologise!

I love local history and its connection to present day.

These posts do tend to get lost amongst the threads, I agree.  Why not revive the Bamber Country thread?

[campion]

 Right, back to Mersea Island. As some of you may know Mersea is famous for its oysters that allegedly are the seafood equivalent of Viagra and will give a libido similar to a rutting rhinoceros at full rut, highly recommended if your spending time with Angie Greaves, by all accounts ! Mersea also has an ancient tumulus known as the Mersea Barrow, dating back to the first century AD. It also has this church called St Peter and St Paul's at West Mersea and buried under the churchyard are some of the finest Roman Mosaics yet to be fully excavated and documented in the UK. Under the chancel floor is a mosaic star from the first/second century. The museum next door to the church claim this was part of a Roman villa. Roman wall remains are extensive, one wall was over a hundred yards long, similar in construction to Temple walls discovered in other parts of the Roman Empire. The research I have carried out points to this site being a Temple for High Status Romans who are about to enter the afterlife, the site location at West Mersea is clearly visible from the Othona Fort site across the Blackwater at Bradwell, which when viewed from the top of the hill at Wickham Bishops/ Great Totham/ Great Braxted, you can actually piece together the significance the area had in the past. The whole area was the Ancient kingdom of Camaludonum, occupied by Kings of Briton through a period that ended with the dissolution of the monasteries. Mersea Island was the property of the Priory of Ouen before the time of Edward the Confessor. The links to St Cedds chapel at Bradwell, Barking Abbey and the development of early christian culture in Britain come from this area. I believe with further investigation the site at West Mersea will reveal the earliest surviving Christian artefact's discovered in this country and its importance to our culture is comparable to Stonehenge. It is a shame that it will be blighted by a 121 metre high Wind Turbine Farm because Politicians decided it was insignificant and of little merit. In light of this I am recommending that people with a supply account for Electricity with N Power phone them up on Monday morning and change supplier in protest. Tweet your mates and tell them as well. The full Economic benefits of this area are the key to unlocking the true potential of tourism in this Country. Tolleshunt D'arcy takes its name from a Yorkshireman, yeah you can't make this up?

[mike tesko]

Right, back to Mersea Island. As some of you may know Mersea is famous for its oysters that allegedly are the seafood equivalent of Viagra and will give a libido similar to a rutting rhinoceros at full rut, highly recommended if your spending time with Angie Greaves, by all accounts ! Mersea also has an ancient tumulus known as the Mersea Barrow, dating back to the first century AD. It also has this church called St Peter and St Paul's at West Mersea and buried under the churchyard are some of the finest Roman Mosaics yet to be fully excavated and documented in the UK. Under the chancel floor is a mosaic star from the first/second century. The museum next door to the church claim this was part of a Roman villa. Roman wall remains are extensive, one wall was over a hundred yards long, similar in construction to Temple walls discovered in other parts of the Roman Empire. The research I have carried out points to this site being a Temple for High Status Romans who are about to enter the afterlife, the site location at West Mersea is clearly visible from the Othona Fort site across the Blackwater at Bradwell, which when viewed from the top of the hill at Wickham Bishops/ Great Totham/ Great Braxted, you can actually piece together the significance the area had in the past. The whole area was the Ancient kingdom of Camaludonum, occupied by Kings of Briton through a period that ended with the dissolution of the monasteries. Mersea Island was the property of the Priory of Ouen before the time of Edward the Confessor. The links to St Cedds chapel at Bradwell, Barking Abbey and the development of early christian culture in Britain come from this area. I believe with further investigation the site at West Mersea will reveal the earliest surviving Christian artefact's discovered in this country and its importance to our culture is comparable to Stonehenge. It is a shame that it will be blighted by a 121 metre high Wind Turbine Farm because Politicians decided it was insignificant and of little merit. In light of this I am recommending that people with a supply account for Electricity with N Power phone them up on Monday morning and change supplier in protest. Tweet your mates and tell them as well. The full Economic benefits of this area are the key to unlocking the true potential of tourism in this Country. Tolleshunt D'arcy takes its name from a Yorkshireman, yeah you can't make this up?

Any history on the name "Tolleshunt Knights", and how it came about?

[Jane]

Not concrete, but possibly a reference to Knights Templar?

[mike tesko]

Not concrete, but possibly a reference to Knights Templar?

Knights Templar, no less?

[HMEssex]

Found this article on the history of Tolleshunt Knights:

http://www.essexinfo.net/tolleshuntknightsparishcouncil/history-of-tolleshunt-knights/


"The district's entry in the Domesday Book in 1086 reportedly shows it to have consisted of 4 manors, with a combined population of 120, possessed of 5 plough teams of eight oxen.It is only after this time that the 3 villages which bear the name Tolleshunt clearly emerge, with title to the land around Tolleshunt D'Arcy eventually being acquired by the D'Arcy family, Tolleshunt Major by the Le Majeurs, and Tolleshunt Knights by the Le Chevalliers (Chevalier being of course the Norman French for Knight). The name of Tolleshunt Knights may also be derived from the fact that the land round about was once given over as tithe land to the most largest of all the orders of crusading knights, the Knights Templar, who had considerable land holdings in Essex until the order was suppressed on the orders of King Edward II in 1311, but it is more likely that the former explanation is the correct one."

[mike tesko]

Found this article on the history of Tolleshunt Knights:

http://www.essexinfo.net/tolleshuntknightsparishcouncil/history-of-tolleshunt-knights/


"The district's entry in the Domesday Book in 1086 reportedly shows it to have consisted of 4 manors, with a combined population of 120, possessed of 5 plough teams of eight oxen.It is only after this time that the 3 villages which bear the name Tolleshunt clearly emerge, with title to the land around Tolleshunt D'Arcy eventually being acquired by the D'Arcy family, Tolleshunt Major by the Le Majeurs, and Tolleshunt Knights by the Le Chevalliers (Chevalier being of course the Norman French for Knight). The name of Tolleshunt Knights may also be derived from the fact that the land round about was once given over as tithe land to the most largest of all the orders of crusading knights, the Knights Templar, who had considerable land holdings in Essex until the order was suppressed on the orders of King Edward II in 1311, but it is more likely that the former explanation is the correct one."

Very interesting, thank you...

[mike tesko]

I started to take an interest in the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR after a visit to Malta...

[Jane]

And did you thank your lucky stars that you never incurred their wrath enough to be placed in that dreadful hole they placed people to punish misdemeanours?

[mike tesko]

And did you thank your lucky stars that you never incurred their wrath enough to be placed in that dreadful hole they placed people to punish misdemeanours?

Tell me more, and educate me...

[bloggs and son]

And did you thank your lucky stars that you never incurred their wrath enough to be placed in that dreadful hole they placed people to punish misdemeanours?

They were a very blood thirsty sect and not that moral. They had very little respect for Muslims and referred to them as infidels. Richard 1st was a Templer and although he is revered by the English as being a fair and just man, he spent hardly any time in England and spoke only French. When he died  his instructions were to send a part of his body to all 4 corners of his kingdom, except England.
Whilst in the so called "holy land" he captured around 3000 Muslim prisoners. He had nowhere to keep them so he had them all slaughtered. Apparently Saladin was a more just and honourable man than King Richard, (a hard thing to say for a Christian. But I have seen this to be true of Muslims for myself) who acquired the name "Lionheart" because he was very brave. Saladin said that he often put himself into dangerous situations when he need not have done. Those crusaders were all Knights Templer. There got their name because they worshipped in erm "Temples".

[Jane]

Tell me more, and educate me...

Hi Mike. Whilst on a walking tour, somewhere in Valleta, we were shown a grid in the ground, it looked like a rain drain. A person regarded as guilty would have been lowered into this deep space, just wide enough for their shoulders, and left there for the duration of their sentence. I don't need to remind you of Malta's climate. Within that space if they didn't fry, they drowned. Few, I imagine came out alive and those who did probably wished they'd died..........but I loved Malta!!!!

[susan]

Hi april  I found Malta barron and dried out with no greener whatsoever nothing but flies and the heat was intense but it was August when I stayed there the leather shoes were good I bought many pairs and when I got home realised they were not practical so they never got worn

[Bridget]

Hi april  I found Malta barron and dried out with no greener whatsoever nothing but flies and the heat was intense but it was August when I stayed there the leather shoes were good I bought many pairs and when I got home realised they were not practical so they never got worn

I liked Malta but it's too small.