Thorpe-le-Soken is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England.

[3] In c. 970, King Æthelstan confirmed the grant of Eduluesnaesa – combined estate of Kirby, Thorpe and Walton – to St Paul’s.

The old manor house, Thorpe Hall, was owned by the Leake family, and rebuilt in the 1820s by the wealthy lawyer J.M.

(Source: contemporary issues of Essex County Standard, Arnold Bennett's Correspondence.)

[6] 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.