Tolleshunt Knights

{{short description|Village in Essex, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|official_name= Tolleshunt Knights

|coordinates = {{coord|51.8009|0.7787|display=inline,title}}

|population =1030

|population_ref = (2011){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129771&c=CO5+0RL&d=16&e=62&g=6425506&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1443002356046&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=23 September 2015}}

|shire_district= Maldon

|shire_county = Essex

|region= East of England

|constituency_westminster= Witham

|post_town= MALDON

|post_town1=COLCHESTER

|postcode_district=CM9

|postcode_district1=CO5

|postcode_area=CM

|postcode_area1=CO

|dial_code= 01621

|os_grid_reference= TL916150

|static_image_name = All Saints church, Tolleshunt Knights, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 173986.jpg

|static_image_caption= All Saints church, Tolleshunt Knights

}}

Tolleshunt Knights is a village and civil parish{{cite web | title = Parish Council Contacts | publisher = www.maldon.gov.uk | date = October 2006 | url = http://www.maldon.gov.uk/LocalDemocracy/ParishCouncils/clerks.htm | accessdate = 2006-10-29 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928221056/http://www.maldon.gov.uk/LocalDemocracy/ParishCouncils/clerks.htm | archivedate = 2007-09-28 }} 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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