Tolleshunt Knights
All Saints church, Tolleshunt Knights
Tolleshunt Knights Location within Essex
Population	1,030 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference	TL916150
District	Maldon
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MALDON
Postcode district	CM9
Post town	COLCHESTER
Postcode district	CO5
Dialling code	01621
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Witham
List of places UK England Essex 51°48′03″N 0°46′43″E / 51.8009°N 0.7787°E / 51.8009; 0.7787

Tolleshunt Knights is a village and civil parish^[2] in the English county of Essex.

The Parish has a Parish council, and lies within the area of Maldon District Council.^[2] It borders Tiptree, Layer Marney and Salcott cum Virley within the Colchester Borough Council's District and Tolleshunt D'Arcy also within Maldon District. Prior to Tiptree Parish Council being established in 1934 much of the Tiptree Heath area was within the boundaries of Tolleshunt Knights.

The village is also the location of the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, an Orthodox monastery founded by Archimandrite Sophrony in 1958.

From 1904 to 1951 the village was served by a small station on the Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway.

Tolleshunt Knights also has a village hall.

Notables residents of Tolleshunt Knights include the Cottee Family, who have inhabited the small village and it’s neighbouring village, Tiptree, for over 400 years. They finally decided to settle in the village after leaving the Kingdom of France, they later decided to Anglicise their surname to the more English sounding Cottee from the French Lescot.