Tolleshunt D'Arcy (/ˌtoʊlzhʌnt ˈdɑːrsi/[2]) is a village situated on the Blackwater estuary in the Maldon District of Essex, England.

Toll was an Anglo-Saxon chief who settled in large areas of forest, establishing clearings where water was readily available.

Salter was a prize-winning horticulturist, vice-president of the English Kennel Club, and became Provincial Grand Master of the Freemasons.

[4] Her sister, Emily Joyce Allingham, was an amateur filmmaker who documented aspects of life in the village, such as its celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Allingham is buried in the newer village cemetery, about half a mile south of St Nicholas's Church graveyard on the other side of the road.

[5] In August 1985, Tolleshunt D'Arcy made national headlines for an incident which became known as the White House Farm murders, when a couple, their adoptive daughter and her two children were shot and died from their injuries.

[12] The parish church of St Nicholas is in the perpendicular style with a west tower, and a nave ceiling which was decorated in 1897 by Ernest Geldart.

The school is situated in the centre of Tolleshunt D'Arcy village and has acres of open grassland, a playground and a wild-life area.

[13] The school is a single-storey building built in 1983, which has 7 classrooms which include a large reception class room with its very own playground.

[19] The reserve occupies 459 hectares (1,130 acres)[19] of grazing marshes with brackish water, saltmarsh, reedbeds and two off-shore islands.

[20] Thousands of anthills of the yellow meadow ant can be found in the ancient grasslands of Old Hall Marshes as well as around twenty-four species of butterfly.

Dragonflies are also popular in this area which include the scarce emerald damselfly and good numbers of ruddy darters.

[17] In autumn Teals and Wigeons are most popular seen in the shallow open waters, as well as flocks of Golden plovers and Lapwings.

Sea ducks including red-breasted mergansers, grebes, divers and goldeneyes can be found in the estuarine channels.

[21] The area has over three hundred remains of prehistoric and Roman salt making sites, called Red Hills, which are found along the Essex coast.

The closest station is Kelvedon on the Great Eastern Main Line between London Liverpool Street and Norwich.