Cressing

Village in Essex, England

Human settlement in England
  • Cressing
District
  • Braintree
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  • Essex
Region
  • East
CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBRAINTREEPostcode districtCM77Dialling code01376PoliceEssexFireEssexAmbulanceEast of England UK Parliament
  • Braintree
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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

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


External links

Media related to Cressing at Wikimedia Commons [1]


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  1. ^ "The 10 best restaurants in Essex according to Tripadvisor". 22 January 2022.