Tolleshunt D'Arcy is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 and civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 in the county of Essex

Essex

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 in the East of England

East of England

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The Parish has a Parish council, and lies within the area of Maldon District Council

Maldon (district)

Maldon is a local government district in Essex, England. Its council is based in the town of Maldon, and the next largest centre of population is Burnham-on-Crouch. The district covers the Dengie peninsula as well as an area to the north of the Blackwater Estuary, a total area of...

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Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham

Margery Louise Allingham was an English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.- Childhood and schooling :...

 the crime writer lived with her husband at D'Arcy House in the centre of the village from 1935 until her death in 1966. Her memoir "The Oaken Heart" (1941) was based on life in the village during the war.

In 1985, Jeremy Bamber

Jeremy Bamber

Jeremy Nevill Bamber was convicted in England in 1986 of murdering five members of his adoptive family—his father, mother, sister, and her six-year-old twin sons—at his parents' home at White House Farm, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, in the early hours of 7 August 1985...

 allegedly shot dead his adoptive parents and their twin children and daughter at the family farmhouse about one kilometre from the centre of the village. He received life tariff

Life imprisonment (England and Wales)

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 for this, but protests his innocence.

From 1904 to 1951 the village was served by the Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway

Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway

The Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway, authorised under the Light Railways Act 1896 operated between the two villages of Kelvedon and Tollesbury to the south of Colchester in Essex, England...

, with a small station

Tolleshunt d'Arcy railway station

Tolleshunt d'Arcy railway station served the village of Tolleshunt d'Arcy in Essex. It closed in 1951.Former Services-External links:*...

to the north of the village.