Lawford
Lawford is a large village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England. It is approximately 6 miles (10 km) northeast of the center of Colchester and west of, and contiguous with, Manningtree.
The Leftley Housing estate, situated towards the east of the village, is a typical 1960s development of mainly semi-detached houses and bungalows.
The area includes a number of smallholdings originally built by the Land Settlement Association.
The 14th-century parish Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building.
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Tye Henge
Over 4,000 years ago the Lawford Lads of the day constructed a monument in what is now Tye Field, just behind the football pitches off School Lane….
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Dale Hall
Most people who live in Lawford are probably unaware they live within the old Manor of ‘Dale Hall’.
They may be even more surprised that the Hall still exists in its medieval form sitting at the centre of the locality.
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Foxash Land Settlement
In 1936 1000 unemployed miners and shipbuilders moved to 20 different locations across England, including Foxash in Essex, to begin new lives as market gardeners….
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The Lawford Riot (1816)
Two hundred years ago there were steep rises to the cost of living and mounting rural unemployment. The Parish and the Church were meant to be central in providing ‘poor’ relief to those most affected. In Lawford & Ardleigh the two local vicars seem rather to have been the cause of increasing rural poverty and disquiet, than the solution….