English began as a station of the Sugar Land Railway, located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of what is now Farm to Market Road 1462 on Oyster Creek.

Area maps from the 1980s show several scattered residences and abandoned buildings.

[2] English is north of the Ramsey Unit and 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Angleton.

[2] Today, the community is served by the Angleton Independent School District.

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