5491 x 3661 px | 46,5 x 31 cm | 18,3 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2008
Altre informazioni:
Thaxted is a town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, with about 2600 inhabitants. Notable Thaxted buildings include Horham Hall, Thaxted Guildhall dating from around 1450 and John Webb's Windmill built in 1804. Thaxted appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Tachesteda, Old English for "place where thatch was got." Once a centre of cutlery manufacture, Thaxted went into decline with the rise of Sheffield as a major industrial centre. A light railway, the Elsenham & Thaxted Light Railway, eventually opened in 1913, though the railway itself never reached nearer than three-quarters of a mile (1.2km) from the town, as building earthworks across the River Chelmer proved too costly. With the growth of road transport, the line was closed to passengers in 1952 and closed altogether in 1953. The name of Cutler's Green, a small hamlet (place) about a mile to the west of Thaxted, recalls the trade that yielded the area's early wealth.
