Dengie

Dengie
Dengie
	St James' Church, Dengie
	Dengie Location within Essex
Population	119 (2011)
OS grid reference	TL986016
District	Maldon;
Shire county	Essex;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Southminster
Postcode district	CM0
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
	List of places UK England Essex 51°40′43″N 0°52′18″E / 51.6785°N 0.8716°E

Dengie /ˈdɛndʒiː/ is a village and civil parish in the Maldon district of Essex, England, with a population of 119 at the 2011 census.^[1]

It gives its name to the Dengie peninsula and hundred and to the Dengie Special Protection Area.

The place-name 'Dengie' is first attested in a manuscript of between 709 and 745, where it appears as Deningei. It appears as Daneseia in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means 'Dene's island' or 'the island of Dene's people'.^[2]

The 14th-century church of St James is the parish Church for the village.

Dengie Flats, offshore, was used as a bombing and strafing range by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War, and also attracted many crash-landing aircraft bound to or from the nearby RAF Bradwell Bay airfield. Between 1942 and 1945 Dengie was also the site of a 10-cm "Coast Defence" radar station used to warn of enemy ships and low-flying aircraft and doodlebugs.

(Sources—RAF record books at National Archive; USAF Missing in Action records;J P Foynes "Battle of the East Coast 1939-1945")

Dengie marshes were once used to film an episode of Doctor Who.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Dengie Parish (E04004046)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.141.
^ "Tillingham Marshes". The Locations Guide to Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

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[ONS-1] UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Dengie Parish (E04004046)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 6 August 2019.

[2] Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.141.

[Source-3] "Tillingham Marshes". The Locations Guide to Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

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v t e The towns and villages of the Maldon district, Essex, England
Towns	Maldon Burnham-on-Crouch
Villages	Althorne Asheldham Bradwell Waterside Bradwell-on-Sea Cold Norton Creeksea Dengie Goldhanger Great Braxted Great Totham Hazeleigh Heybridge Heybridge Basin Langford Latchingdon Little Braxted Little Totham Mayland Maylandsea Mundon North Fambridge Purleigh Snoreham Southminster Steeple Stow Maries St Lawrence Tillingham Tollesbury Tolleshunt D'Arcy Tolleshunt Major Ulting Wickham Bishops Woodham Mortimer Woodham Walter
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