Turning Point
Subtitle: The story of Kirby le Soken, Essex
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: December 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780721206516
Subjects: Europe - Great Britain - General; History - General History
First sentence: The name 'Kirby' is of Danish origin, meaning 'by the church' and the three Sokens of Kirby, Thorpe and Walton formed a Peculiar Jurisdiction or Soke granted some time before 941 by the Saxon kings to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's in London, under the name of Eudulphesna of Alduleuesnasa; today the seal is in the British Museum and the Stall in St. Paul's Cathedral remains.
Description: Rural parish history covering the period 1823 to 1862.
Table of contents: label: Chapter One
title: The Village 1823
pagenum: 11; label: Chapter Two
title: The Reverend William Burgess
pagenum: 25; label: Chapter Three
title: Revolt and Reform; label: I
title: The Tendring Riots
pagenum: 36; label: II
title: The Rebuilding of the Parish Church
pagenum: 44; label: Chapter Four
title: The Problem of the Poor
pagenum: 52; label: Chapter Five
title: The Reverend William Langston Coxhead
pagenum: 63; label: Chapter Six
title: Education
pagenum: 70; label: Chapter Seven; label: I
title: Music in the Church
pagenum: 82; label: II
title: Life in the Village; label: Chapter Eight; label: I
title: The Bakers of India
pagenum: 99; label: II
title: Enterprise in England
pagenum: 102; label: III
title: Decline of Kirby le Soken
pagenum: 106; label: Table I
title: The Family of Samuel Baker 1783-1852
pagenum: 110; label: Index
pagenum: 111