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Village in Essex, England

Thorpe le Soken is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is located east of Colchester, west of Walton on the Naze and Frinton on Sea, and north of Clacton on Sea.

Since 2002, archaeological investigations ahead of construction work have uncovered traces of Palaeolithic (early Clactonian 424,000 400,000 BC), Mesolithic, early Neolithic and Roman rural settlements. Thorpe le Soken's contiguous history can be traced back to Saxon times. In c970, King Æthelstan confirmed the grant of Eduluesnaesa – combined estate of Kirby, Thorpe and Walton – to St Paul’s. Soken meaning a jurisdiction with separate taxation and managerial responsibilities. There has been a manor house at Thorpe since about 1150. The old manor house, Thorpe Hall, was owned by the Leake family, and rebuilt in the 1820s by the wealthy lawyer J. M. Leake (d. 1862). It was later leased by Frederic Foaker, owner of Sneating Hall at Kirby le Soken. Thorpe Hall was the home of Viscount Byng of Vimy (Governor General of Canada 1921–6), and his wife Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, who relandscaped the gardens. Between 1690 and 1720 Thorpe housed a community of several dozen Huguenot refugees fleeing persecution in France, who are thought to have stayed at the large house still called Comarques. The house is now home to the Adams family. (Source: Huguenot Society records.) This was also the home of the famous Midlands author Arnold Bennett just before and during the First World War. (Source: contemporary issues of Essex County Standard, Arnold Bennett's Correspondence.) The local church, St Michael's, was shown in series 2 episode 4 of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, where comedian Julian Clary traced a family member to the church.

Thorpe le Soken has Rolph CofE Primary School in the High Street, and the Thorpe Campus of Tendring Technology College (Years 7, 8 and 9) in Landermere Road. The village is served by Thorpe le Soken railway station. The village had a post office at 29 High Street, but this closed c.2008 and was converted into a house. The village hosts several shops, pubs and eateries.