Tolleshunt Knights

Tolleshunt Knights
All Saints church, Tolleshunt Knights
Tolleshunt Knights
Location within Essex
Population1,030 (2011)
OS grid referenceTL916150
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMALDON
Postcode districtCM9
Post townCOLCHESTER
Postcode districtCO5
Dialling code01621
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament

Tolleshunt Knights is a village and civil parish in the English county of Essex.

The parish has a Parish council, and is in the area of Maldon District Council. It borders Tiptree, Layer Marney and Salcott cum Virley within the Colchester Borough Council's District and Tolleshunt D'Arcy also within Maldon District. Prior to Tiptree Parish Council being established in 1934 much of the Tiptree Heath area was within the boundaries of Tolleshunt Knights.

The village is the site of the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, an Orthodox monastery founded in 1958.

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