page_title: Earls Colne
section_title: Earls Colne Industrial Co-operative Society
hierarchical_section_title: Earls Colne / History / Earls Colne Industrial Co-operative Society
caption_attribution_description: Earls Colne (UK) Coop Building
context_page_description: Earls Colne is a village in Essex, England named after the River Colne, on which it stands, and the Earls of Oxford who held the manor of Earls Colne from before 1086 to 1703.
context_section_description: Central to late nineteenth and early twentieth century life in the village was the Earls Colne Industrial and Co-operative Society. The Earls Colne Co-op was one of the last remaining independent village co-operative societies in Essex and Suffolk, finally merging with the far larger Colchester and East Essex society in 1970. The Earls Colne Co-op was founded in 1884 in the front room of a cottage in High Street.
  The current store occupies a building dating to between 1480 and 1510, the roof timbers being preserved and exposed in-store to enable the public to appreciate the method of construction.
caption: Co-op building
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