Mistley & Manningtree Home Page
Includes local information for tourists, history and picture galleries
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| Mistley | Manningtree is an improving market town and proud to be England's smallest town. It is pleasantly situated on the south side of the river Stour, at the point where that river begins to widen into a broad estuary. Manningtree has many elegant buildings which have Georgian facades hiding earlier origins. The total population of the town and suburbs (Mistley and Lawford) is over 9000. | Business | |||||||
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| Manningtree and Mistley have long been ports for smaller ships and their wealth was founded on the wool trade in the 1500s and 1600s. The Stour is navigable for barges as high as Sudbury, 20 miles above Manningtree. There was an extensive trade in corn, coal, timber, fish. There are also several extensive malting businesses. For two centuries, Manningtree and Mistley were important brewing centres and ports. Even today, although on a reduced scale, the brewing industry is still well represented and Mistley is a small but thriving port. Mistley Towers is the remains of a church, built as part of Robert Adams's model village and spa, which was never finished. The Prince of Wales is taking an interest in its restoration. Mistley Place Park is an environmental and animal rescue centre with more than 2,000 rescued birds and animals spread over 25 acres. | Site map | ||||||||
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