Winstree Hundred 1863 Whites directory
Is a small maritime district, bounded on the south by the ocean, on the east by the estuary of the river Colne, on the west by Thurstable and Lexden Hundreds, and on the north by the latter and the Borough of Colchester. The southern portion of it consists chiefly of low marshes, intersected by several salt-water creeks, one of which, the Pyefleet, winds round the land side of Mersea Island, from the mouths of the Colne and the Blackwater, and is celebrated for fine oysters. This small Hundred is of an oval figure, and about nine miles in length, and five in breadth. The following enumeration of its thirteen parishes shows their territorial extent, and their population in 1861. They are all in Lexden and Winstree Union, in Colchester County Court District, in the North Division of Essex, and in the Archdeaconry of Colchester and Deanery of Lexden. As a part of the latter, they form the Rural Deanery of Mersea. The Hundred has two high constables .
Parishes .
WINSTREE HUNDRED
Acres. Popolation in 1861 Acres.
Abberton 1067 269
Fingringhoe 2860 670
Langenhoe 2100 169
*Layer Breton 970 298
Layer de la Hay 2577 807
Layer Marney 1950 276
Mersea, East 1820 305
Mersea, West 3136 929
Peldon 2200 501
Salcott 255 183
Virley 626 67
*Wigborough, Great 2600 428
*Wigborough Little 1152 92
Total 23,313 4999
- Layer Breton and Great and Little Wigborough are in the Duchy of Lancaster.