East Mersea
East Mersea is a scattered village and civil parish on Mersea Island in the English county of Essex.
East Mersea | |
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![]() St Edmund's church, East Mersea | |
![]() ![]() East Mersea Location within Essex | |
Population | 266 (2011 Census)[1] |
OS grid reference | TM060150 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Colchester |
Postcode district | CO5 |
Dialling code | 01206 |
Police | Essex |
Fire | Essex |
Ambulance | East of England |
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Grave of Sarah Wrench
The grave of Sarah Wrench (1833-1848), by the North wall of the chancel at St. Edmund's Church in East Mersea is unusual for an English grave because it is covered by a mortsafe,[2] a protective cage used at the time in Scotland to protect corpses from graverobbers.
Richard Jones, in Myths of Britain and Ireland, refers to popular speculation that Sarah Wrench was a witch, and that the cage was designed to keep her from escaping her grave after death.[3] Although East Anglia was at one time known for witch trials, this was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, not the mid-nineteenth.
Notes
- "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- Bettley 2007, p. 338
- Mason 2006
gollark: What are the axes?
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gollark: Yes. It might not be possible to do anything but somehow optimize the genetic-algorithm-based approach then.
gollark: That sounds worrying.
gollark: If your problem actually is nice and differentiable - which it sounds like it *might* be, I think you're laying out cables or something? - then it should be a lot faster if you can use that instead of just moving around randomly.
References
- Bettley, James (2007), Pevsner, Nikolaus (ed.), Essex, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0300116144
- Mason, John (2006), Myths & Legends of Britain & Ireland, Photography by John Mason, London: New Holland, ISBN 1845375947
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