Cressing

Cressing
Cressing
	Cressing Village Sign
	Cressing Location within Essex
OS grid reference	TL792209
Civil parish	Cressing;
District	Braintree;
Shire county	Essex;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRAINTREE
Postcode district	CM77
Dialling code	01376
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Braintree;
	List of places UK England Essex 51°51′31″N 0°36′08″E / 51.85873°N 0.602188°E

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.

The parish contains two churches, two public houses - no longer have a public house, 1 Restaurant, 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

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

External links

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

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