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Cressing

Coordinates: 51°51′31″N 0°36′08″E / 51.85873°N 0.602188°E / 51.85873; 0.602188
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Cressing
Cressing village
Cressing is located in Essex
Cressing
Cressing
Location within Essex
OS grid referenceTL792209
Civil parish
  • Cressing
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBRAINTREE
Postcode districtCM77
Dialling code01376
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
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Essex
51°51′31″N 0°36′08″E / 51.85873°N 0.602188°E / 51.85873; 0.602188

Cressing is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. Within the parish is the village of Tye Green and the hamlet of Hawbush Green.

Cressing Temple is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south from Cressing village, and less than 1 mile east from the village of White Notley. It is nestled between Braintree and Witham, just a couple of miles or one train stop to Braintree Shopping Village, formerly Freeport.

The parish contains two churches, one public house (Fowlers Farm), one Restaurant (Il Salice), which is currently one of the top rated restaurants in Essex as of 2022, and a business park. A men's Sunday League and youth football teams play at Cressing Sports and Social Club in Tye Green. Cressing railway station, on the Braintree Branch Line, is at the west of the parish.

Sir Evelyn Wood (1838–1919), a Field Marshal and Victoria Cross recipient, was born at Cressing.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Mee, Arthur (1942). The King's England - Essex. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 104.


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Media related to Cressing at Wikimedia Commons [1]