Tiptree is a village and civil parish in the English county of Essex, situated 10 miles south-west of Colchester and around 50 miles north-east of London. Surrounding villages include Messing, Tolleshunt Knights, Tolleshunt Major, Layer Marney, Inworth, Birch, Great Braxted, Great Totham and Little Totham. The place-name 'Tiptree' is first attested in a charter in the British Museum of circa 1225, where it appears as Typpetre. The name means 'Tippa's tree'.The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 9,152. The village has been expanding rapidly for several years with large numbers of new houses and estates being built, though it stills re...
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