Sturmer, Essex
| Sturmer | |
 St Mary's church |
|
  Sturmer Sturmer shown within Essex | |
| Population | 340 |
|---|---|
| OS grid reference | TL698439 |
| District | Braintree |
| Shire county | Essex |
| Region | East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Haverhill |
| Postcode district | CB9 |
| Dialling code | 01440 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
| UK Parliament | Saffron Walden |
Sturmer is a village in the county of Essex, England, United Kingdom, close to the county border with Suffolk.
The church of St Mary's was built in the eleventh century.
The village also gives its name to the Sturmer Pippin apple which was bred in the orchards of the village.[1]
Like most English villages Sturmer once had industry of its own including shops, maltings, farming, orchards for both apples and willow for basket making and cricket bats. Today, in common with many other villages, there is little of this local industry left. It is home to a golf course, a cement works, a garden centre and most of the village area is still covered with worked arable land although it takes many fewer people to run an arable farm than it did in the 1800s.
The village was once host to a railway station and hotel on Water Lane but both are now private dwellings. The Stour Valley Railway once connected Sturmer to Colchester, Cambridge, Sudbury and many other important towns but was eventually closed as part of the Beeching Axe which shut many branch lines.
Notable residents
In the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon, a loyal warrior named Leofsunu or Leofsund says he is from Sturmer (lines 244-254).[2]
Olympic gold medalist Godfrey Rampling lived in Sturmer where his daughter the actress Charlotte Rampling was born.
References
- ↑ "A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE STURMER PIPPIN". Sturmer Nurseries. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ↑ Wilfrid Berridge. "The Battle of Maldon Part III". Retrieved 29 November 2011.
External links
Media related to Sturmer, Essex at Wikimedia Commons