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THE PLACE-NAMES OF EAST MERSEA Recorder: Jennifer Pyle Essex Place-names Project (Essex Society for Archaeology History) Essex Record Office, 2009 (e-book). www.essex.ac.uk/history/esah/essexplacenames ESSEX PLACE-NAMES PROJECT. The Essex Place-names Project is a County-wide survey to record place- and field-names from historical documents such as Tithe maps and apportionments, estate maps, sale and auction catalogues, conveyances, terriers, deeds, rolls, inquisitions and surveys. The second element of the Project is to investigate on-the-ground visible remains which correspond to the Place-names for actual or potential archaeological, agricultural and industrial sites, and to record natural (topographical) and man-made features which may relate to the Place-name. This involves field-survey in rural and outside investigation in built-up areas. It is anticipated that the Project will lead to identification of archaeological sites and lost historic buildings; it will enable analysis of indicators of early settlement, land holding, agricultural and industrial practices of the County. It will refine the more precise meaning of descriptive words and elements used by earlier settlers as they gave names appropriate to the topography of the landscape of their time. For convenience the surveys are based on the parish, recognising that present civil parish boundaries are not necessarily identical to former ecclesiastical boundaries. Local Recorders are supplied with templates of Record Forms to ensure consistency of recording across the County, and forward completed forms to a Central Coordinator for transfer to a county computer database which is available at the Essex Record Office to researchers. This publication presents part of the information recorded from the Tithe or Estate Award and Map, (and from other documents for this parish.) The full record is contained on the master database in the Essex Record Office