East Donyland

The name "Donyland" means 'Land connected with Dunna'.^[5] In Saxon times there had been a single estate called Donyland covering an extensive area south of Colchester. The estate was split into four parts in the late 10th century. Three of the four parts of Donyland then came under the jurisdiction of the borough of Colchester; those three were collectively termed "West Donyland". The other part was outside the borough in the Lexden hundred, and became known as East Donyland.^[6] The Donyland estates were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Dunilanda'/'Dunulunda'.^[7]

East Donyland became a parish. The parish church, dedicated to St Lawrence, historically stood to the north of East Donyland Hall.^[8] A replacement parish church, also dedicated to St Lawrence, was built in 1838 on a new site in Rowhedge, which had come to be the largest settlement in the parish.^[9]

The parish has been subject to occasional adjustments to its boundaries with neighbouring parishes.^[10][11]

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• "East Donyland: Introduction". British History Online. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
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