1) Civil parish in Essex 
The village of Pleshey lies in Essex, England, just to the northwest of Chelmsford. William the Conqueror gave Pleshey, in the parish of High Easter (southwest of Braintree) to Geoffrey de Mandeville in appreciation of his services; Mandeville was one of William`s battle commanders at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. At Pleshey, Mandeville built h....