Tolleshunt D'Arcy

infobox UK place

country = England
official_name= Tolleshunt D'Arcy
latitude= 51.7714

longitude= 0.797
civil_parish= Tolleshunt D'Arcy
population = 10,796
shire_district= Maldon
shire_county = Essex
region= East of England

constituency_westminster= Maldon & East Chelmsford
post_town= MALDON
postcode_district= CM9
postcode_area= CM
dial_code= 01621
os_grid_reference= TL930117

Tolleshunt D'Arcy is a village and civil parishcite web | title = Parish Council Contacts | publisher = www.maldon.gov.uk | date = October 2006 | url = http://www.maldon.gov.uk/LocalDemocracy/ParishCouncils/clerks.htm
format = HTML | accessdate = 2006-10-29] in the county of Essex in the East of England.

The Parish has a Parish council, and lies within the area of Maldon District Council.

Margery Allingham the crime writer lived with her husband at D'Arcy House in the centre of the village from 1935 until her death in 1966. Her memoir "The Oaken Heart" (1941) was based on life in the village during the war. [http://www.margeryallingham.org.uk/darcy.htm]

Jeremy Bamber, a mass murderer, shot dead his adoptive parents, sister and twin six-year-old nephews at the family farmhouse about one kilometre from the centre of the village.

The village web site - www.tolleshuntdarcy.co.uk - contains information on village events such as fete's, quiz's, hall hire and about the village businesses.

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