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{{Short description|Village in Essex, England}}
{{distinguish|Denge (disambiguation){{!}}Denge}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country =                 England
|official_name=             Dengie
|coordinates = {{coord|51.6785|0.8716|display=inline,title}}
|population =       119
|population_ref =   (2011)<ref name=ONS/>
|shire_district=          [[Maldon (district)|Maldon]]
|shire_county =            [[Essex]]
|region=                  East of England
|constituency_westminster=
|post_town= [[Southminster]]
|postcode_district= CM0
|postcode_area= CM
|dial_code=
|os_grid_reference=     TL986016
|static_image_name = St James Church. Dengie - geograph.org.uk - 1417410.jpg
|static_image_width =
|static_image_caption= St James' Church, Dengie
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'''Dengie''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ɛ|n|dʒ|iː}} is a scattered village and [[civil parish]] in the [[Maldon (district)|Maldon district]] of [[Essex]], England, with a population of 119 at the 2011 census.<ref name="ONS">{{NOMIS2011|id=E04004046|title=Dengie Parish|access-date=6 August 2019}}</ref> It is about 4 km NE of the nearest town (and railway station), [[Southminster]], on the slightly higher ground to the north of Dengie Marshes. [[Dengie nature reserve]] is about 5 km to the north-east.
It gives its name to the [[Dengie peninsula]] and [[Dengie Hundred|hundred]] and to the [[Dengie SPA|Dengie Special Protection Area]].
The place-name "Dengie" is first attested in a manuscript of between 709 and 745, where it appears as ''Deningei''. It appears as ''Daneseia'' in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086. The name means "Dene's island" or "the island of Dene's people".<ref>[[Eilert Ekwall]], ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.141.</ref>
The 14th-century church of St James is the parish church.
Dengie Flats, offshore, was used as a bombing and strafing range by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War, and also attracted many crash-landing aircraft bound to or from the nearby [[RAF Bradwell Bay]] airfield.
Between 1942 and 1945 Dengie was also the site of a 10-cm{{clarify|date=October 2024}} Coast Defence radar station used to warn of enemy ships and low-flying aircraft and [[V1 Flying Bomb|doodlebugs]].<ref>RAF record books at National Archive; USAF Missing in Action records;J P Foynes "Battle of the East Coast 1939-1945"</ref>
Dengie Marshes were once used to film an episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.<ref name="Source">{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/tillinghammarshes|title=Tillingham Marshes|website=The Locations Guide to Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures|access-date=6 January 2020}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Dengie Hundred]]
==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Dengie}}
* [http://www.dengie.org.uk  Information and photographs of Dengie Village]
* [http://www.essex-family-history.co.uk/history.htm  The history of Dengie Village] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216052831/http://essex-family-history.co.uk/history.htm |date=16 February 2009 }}
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[[Category:Villages in Essex]]
[[Category:Maldon District]]
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