Essex

Essex, a county in the SE. of England, between Suffolk on the N. and Kent in the S., faces the German Ocean on the E.; is well watered with streams; has an undulating surface; is chiefly agricultural; brewing is an important industry, and the oyster fisheries of the Colne are noted; Chelmsford is the county town.

Population (circa 1900) given as 785,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)