GREAT MAPLESTEAD PARISH

Introduction

Great Maplestead is a village and a civil parish in the Braintree District, in the English county of Essex. In the sixteenth century the Deane family were Lords of the Manor of Great Maplestead. Later in the century the manor passed by marriage to Sir John Tyndal, Master of the Court of Chancery. It was here in 1618 that Tyndal's daughter Margaret Tyndal Winthrop married John Winthrop, a crucial figure in the founding of Massachusetts. In the 1870s the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales said that Great Maplestead "took its name from maple trees, which anciently flourished on or around its site; and has the repute of being a very healthy place".

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Parish Information

Parish statistics

Area	737 hectares
Population	385 ⁽²⁰²¹⁾
Density	52 people/km²
Mean age	45.8
Ward	Gosfield & Greenstead Green
District	Braintree
Postcodes	CO9
ONS ID	E04003903