Rayne, Essex
Rayne | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Braintree | |
Postcode district | CM77 | |
Dialling code | 01376 | |
Police | Essex | |
Fire | Essex | |
Ambulance | East of England | |
UK Parliament | ||
Rayne is a village of about 2,300 residents in the
It lies on the
It used to be a more important settlement than Braintree in
Rayne has a
The church building consists of the Tudor tower, built in 1510, a Nave (an 1840 construction, replacing a Norman building from 1199 and said to be unsafe) and a Sanctuary and Vestry, added in 1914. The earliest recorded Rector is Ralph de Fremingham, from 1260.[3]
Further west along the main road ("The Street"), there are: an
Station Road leads down to the former Rayne railway station, which is now the Rayne Station Centre of the Flitch Way Country Park, a linear park stretching along the former trackbed of the railway.[4] This is also now National Cycle Network route No. 16.
Rayne, which is located about 40 miles (64 km) north-east of London, is twinned with Verberie which is about 40 miles (64 km) north-east of Paris in the French region of Picardy, which coincidentally is twinned with the County of Essex.
On 12 July 2006, Rayne was named Essex Village of the Year, in a competition organised annually by Rural Community Council of Essex (RCCE) and sponsored by Calor. Rayne also won first, the regional, and then national, Calor Village of the Year Competition 2006/7 in the ITC Category.
Notable residents
- Beans On Toast, Folk Singer [5]
- Leeroy Thornhill, Musician [6]
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ History of Rayne Church. Locally published by the PCC of All Saints Church. 1990 Edition.
- ^ "All Saints Rayne: A Brief History and Guide to the Church"; Undated but produced during the period 1985-1991.
- ^ "Flitch Way - Discovering Essex - making tracks countryside through the Essex Countryside" (PDF). 5 November 2008. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
- ^ "Folk singer songwriter on a mission to save the humble English pub". Braintree and Witham Times. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ "Leeroy Thornhill - The Prodigy .info". theprodigy.info. Retrieved 9 July 2021.