# Latchingdon

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**Latchingdon** is a village situated on the [Dengie Peninsula](/source/Dengie_Peninsula) in [Essex](/source/Essex), England, south of the city of [Chelmsford](/source/Chelmsford). The parish was at one time called Latchingdon-cum-Snoreham, and Snoreham Hall still exists to the south of Latchingdon. At the [2021 census](/source/2021%E2%80%932022_United_Kingdom_censuses) the parish had a population of 1,407.

The place-name 'Latchingdon' is first attested in 1065 in a charter later published in the *Diplomatarium anglicum* edited by [Benjamin Thorpe](/source/Benjamin_Thorpe), where it appears as *Laecedune*. It appears in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) of 1086 as *Lacenduna*, *Lachenduna* and *Lessenduna*. The name may derive from an unrecorded [Old English](/source/Old_English) word **læcce* from the verb *læccan* to catch, meaning a trap, and related to the modern word '[latch](/source/Latch)'. The name would then mean 'hill with a trap', presumably to catch animals.[1]

## Churches

The village's Christ Church, built in 1857, features an Essex [bell-cote](/source/Bell-cot).

St Michael's Church was built in late 13th century, but its use was limited once Christ Church was built in the centre of the village due to its increasing population. St Michael's was kept as a mortuary chapel until it was [deconsecrated](/source/Deconsecrated) in the late 1950s. In 1968 it was named as the first of 100 Essex churches to be disposed of by the Church of England. In 1976 it was converted to a private house.

A Congregational Church was also built in the village, but it closed and is now also a private house.

## Latchingdon and Snoreham Poor

Under the Poor Law of 1834, Latchingdon and Snoreham became part of the [Maldon](/source/Maldon,_Essex) Union.

## Parish Council

Latchingdon Parish Council meets monthly at Latchingdon village hall.

## References

1. [Eilert Ekwall](/source/Eilert_Ekwall), *The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names*, p.289.

## External links

- [Latchingdon Residents Association](https://web.archive.org/web/20081006064405/http://www.latchingdon-residents.org/local.html)
- [Information and pictures of Latchingdon village](https://web.archive.org/web/20090216170948/http://dengie.org.uk/latchingdonindex.htm)
- [History of Latchingdon](http://www.essex-family-history.co.uk/history.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090216052831/http://essex-family-history.co.uk/history.htm) 16 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine

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