Parkeston is a North Sea port village in Essex, England, situated on the south bank of the River Stour about one mile up-river from Harwich. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 932. In the 1880s, reclaimed land that had been Ray Island was developed by the Great Eastern Railway Company as a railway depot for import/export trade with the Europea…Parkeston is a North Sea port village in Essex, England, situated on the south bank of the River Stour about one mile up-river from Harwich. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 932. In the 1880s, reclaimed land that had been Ray Island was developed by the Great Eastern Railway Company as a railway depot for import/export trade with the European mainland. The new port was named Parkeston Quay, after Charles Henry Parkes, Chairman of the GER. The existing railway line was re-routed to pass through the port, although the original railway embankment, through an overgrown area known locally as The Hangings, still exists. Most of the terraced housing in Parkeston was built for railway employees and some of the streets in the village have names that can be theoretically linked to the shipping and general activities of the railway, examples being Tyler Street, Hamilton Street, Adelaide Street and Princess Street.
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