Great Horkesley
The Horkesleys, Great and Little, are close to Colchester and the river Colne and Nayland and the river Stour. Great Horkesley
in now almost a suburb of Colchester and the area North of Colchester railway station and the General Hospital are now pretty much
all residential housing. There was a very nice thatched cottage on Great Horkesley, that backs on to the Yew Tree public house, that
would have been an ideal house for us to purchase, but it was determined that it ewas too close to Colchester.
GREAT HORKESLEY is a large rectangular parish c. of 3,177 a. (1286 ha.) about 4 miles north of Colchester. Until 1955 the
western quarter of the parish was intermixed with Little Horkesley, and the two parishes had presumably once formed a
single unit. (fn. 1) Two detached portions of Little Horkesley (15 a. and 12 a.) were transferred to Great Horkesley in 1883.
(fn. 2) In 1955 the boundaries between the two parishes were simplified by the transfer of 38 a. to, and 260 a. from,
Great Horkesley. That boundary change moved Hay green and
part of Westwood green, anciently in Great Horkesley parish, into Little Horkesley. (fn. 3)
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