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Halstead is a town and civil parish in the Braintree District of Essex, England. Its population of 11,906 in 2011 was estimated to be 12,161 in 2019. The town lies near Colchester and Sudbury, in the Colne Valley.

Halstead railway station was located in Halstead, Essex. It was 56 miles 34 chains (90.81 km) from London Liverpool Street via Marks Tey. It closed in 1962.

Halstead Town Football Club is a football club based in Halstead, Essex, England. They are currently members of the Essex Senior League and play at Rosemary Lane.

Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural is a civil parish in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England. The parish includes the village of Greenstead Green and the hamlet of Burton's Green, Plaistow Green and Whiteash Green. In 2011 the parish had a population of 670. The parish touches Coggeshall, Colne Engaine, Earls Colne, Gosfield, Great Maplestead, Halstead, Little Maplestead, Pebmarsh, Sible Hedingham and Stisted and surrounds the urban parish of Halstead. There are 35 listed buildings in Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural.

Holy Trinity Church is a redundant Anglican church in the town of Halstead, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church stands to the north of the junction between Trinity Street (the A131 road) and Chapel Hill.

Greenstead Green is a village in the civil parish of Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural, near the town of Halstead in the Braintree district, in the English county of Essex. Other nearby settlements include Burton's Green, Earls Colne, Plaistow Green and Tumbler's Green.

Little Maplestead is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England.

Great Maplestead is a village and a civil parish in the Braintree District, in the English county of Essex. In the sixteenth century the Deane family were Lords of the Manor of Great Maplestead. Later in the century the manor passed by marriage to Sir John Tyndal, Master of the Court of Chancery. It was here in 1618 that Tyndal's daughter Margaret Tyndal Winthrop married John Winthrop, a crucial figure in the founding of Massachusetts. In the 1870s the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales said that Great Maplestead "took its name from maple trees, which anciently flourished on or around its site; and has the repute of being a very healthy place".

White Ash Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural, in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is a little over a mile west of the town of Halstead; the village of Gosfield is also nearby.It comprises residential properties, 6 of which were built in the late 1890s by the Courtauld building company as accommodation for teachers at Gosfield residential school. The remainder of the properties are mostly cottages. The Whitehouse business park is also located at the edge of White Ash Green.

Belcher's and Broadfield Woods is a 14.4-hectare (36-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Halstead and Braintree in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust as the Brookes Nature Reserve.The site is coppice woodland on chalky boulder clay. There is a variety of woodlands types, such as wet ash and maple, pedunculate oak and hornbeam, and acid birch, ash and lime. The ground flora includes species which are locally uncommon, including greater butterfly-orchid and bird's-nest orchid. There is also a variety of butterflies, and ponds which have frogs and newts.The site is crossed by footpaths.

Earls Colne railway station was located in Earls Colne, Essex. It was 53 miles 77 chains (86.84 km) from London Liverpool Street via Marks Tey.

Gosfield School is an English co-educational independent school in Gosfield, in the Braintree district of Essex. It was founded in 1929.