[3] In the early hours of 24 September 1916, the German Army Zeppelin L33 was returning from a bombing raid on London, when it hit by an anti-aircraft shell and further damaged by Royal Flying Corps aircraft.

It made a forced landing in the village, close to New Hall farm.

[9] The building was badly damaged in the 1884 Colchester earthquake but extensive repairs were made.

There are cracks inside and out and the extreme weather of recent years has caused subsidence in the south-west buttress and walls.

However, it does also have an exclave, to the west of the village, which includes Maldon Road and stretches to Salcott Creek in the south.