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Name
  
East Mersea

Shire county
  
Role
  
Village in England

Dialling codes
  
01206

Local time
  
Wednesday 9:27 PM

District
  
Borough of Colchester


East Mersea

Weather
  
-1°C, Wind NE at 3 km/h, 96% Humidity

UK parliament constituency
  
North Essex

East mersea village hall


East Mersea is a scattered village and civil parish on Mersea Island in the English county of Essex.

Contents

East Mersea East Mersea Mapionet

Grave of Sarah Wrench

The grave of Sarah Wrench (1833-1848), by the North wall of the chancel at St. Edmund's Church in East Mersea is unusual for an English grave because it is covered by a mortsafe, a protective cage used at the time in Scotland to protect corpses from graverobbers.

Richard Jones, in Myths of Britain and Ireland, refers to popular speculation that Sarah Wrench was a witch, and that the cage was designed to keep her from escaping her grave after death. Although East Anglia was at one time known for witch trials, this was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, not the mid-nineteenth.

References

East Mersea Wikipedia


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