Twinstead

Updated on Oct 22, 2023

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Population 155 2011 Census Region East Sovereign state United Kingdom Shire county Essex		Civil parish Twinstead Country England Post town Halstead District Braintree District

Twinstead is a village and a civil parish in the Braintree District, in the English county of Essex. This village is located near the town of Sudbury, 3 miles south. It was once part of the Hinckford Hundred.

Map of Twinstead, UK

A hundred is described as:

"A subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court... A number of taxes, including Land Tax, are arranged under Hundreds (or equivalent names in certain areas) and many Registration Districts are named after the old hundreds."

The village is made up of many farms, a riding school and a small vet, besides that it lacks many basic amenities. It has one place of worship which is the Church of St John the Evangelist, which was built in 1860 and is a grade 2 building.

The population of the civil parish including Pebmarsh at the 2011 Census was 155. According to that 2011 census there were 79 males and 76 females living in the parish.

In the 1870's, Twinstead was described as:

"TWINSTEAD, a parish in the district of Sudbury and county of Essex; 3 miles SSW of Sudbury r. station. Post town, Sudbury. Acres, 1,008. Real property, £2,179. Pop., 193. Houses, 48. T. Hall is the seat of B. Sparrow, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £250.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor."

In the early 1800's the social structure was based on three categories: The Employers and Professionals, The Middling Sorts and The Labourers and Servants.

By the late 1800's the population was more precisely divided due to their jobs in different industries. The occupational structures of Twinstead chart shows that males dominated in agriculture especially as labourers, where as woman dominated in domestic services. However the difference between the beginning and end of this century is a more diverse range of jobs became available.

Ethnicity

This has commonly been predominately if not entirely a white christian dominated area due to it being heavily influenced by the Church in the past . In modern times the statistics have not changed and it is an area that is less ethnically diverse than the UK's average. From the 2001 census there were 157 recorded people of White-British origin and 4 of mixed (white and black African) origin. In the most recent 2011 census there were 150 recorded people of White-British origin, 4 of other white origin and 1 person of Arab origin. The ethnic miorities in this area has only hanged slightly but is still predominantly white.

Name

The name Twinstead was first recorded in the Domesday Book as Tumesteda and since the 12th century has been called various names such as Tumstead or Tunstead. Most recently as previously mentioned it is called Twinstead. Twinn is Old English for double, while stede is a place. Twinstead can be defined as double homestead.