Steeple Village History Statistics Historical Statistics 1813 Population 342 TD 1813 Number of Houses 41 TD 1887 Acres 3434 DU 1887 Population 52718 DU   Factual and anecdotal information 1887 A long village, near a considerable creek of the same name, and at the foot of a gentle slope overlooking the marshes beside the Blackwater estuary. At Stansgate , now a hamlet of this parish, a Cluniac Priory was founded in 1175 as a cell to Lewes Priory. DU   Abbreviations used for Source PG - Parliamentary Gazeteer for England and Wales 1851 DU - Durrants Handbook for Essex TD-Topical dictionary of England 1813

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