Billericay history and accessibility
1848 Whites directory South HanningfieldHANNINGFIELD, (SOUTH) a small scattered village and parish, 7 miles S.E. by S. of Chelmsford, and N.E. of Billericay,contains 226 souls, and 1,556 acres of land, partly a light clay, and including 98A. of wood, and 23A. ofwaste. Lord Petre is lord of the manor; but Sir W. B. Proctor, the … Read more
1848 Whites directory West HanningfieldHANNINGFIELD, (WEST) a pleasant village and parish , between two sources of the Sandon brook, 5 miles E. of Ingatestone,and 6 miles S.S.E. of Chelmsford, has 521 inhabitants, and 2,884 acres of land, including 196A. of wood, and 39A. of waste.Petre is lord of the manor; but a great part of … Read more
FRYERNING parish adjoins and includes more than a third of the small town of Ingatestone, which has a Post office, and a station on the Eastern Counties Railway, 23 miles N.E. of London. Its church, and some of its houses, are on an acclivity, about 1 mile N. W. of Ingatestone. It contains 807 inhabitants, … Read more
1848 Whites directory Danbury DANBURY isapleasant village, commanding extensive prospects, and seated on the highest hill in Essex, about 4 miles E. by S. of Chelmsford, and 5 miles W. by S. of Maldon. It is admirably adapted to the purpose of a military station, and from the remains of ancient works of that nature, … Read more
1848 Whites directory Chignal Smealey CHIGNAL SMEALY, or Little Chignal, is a very small parish near the source of a rivulet, 4½ miles N.W. of Chelmsford. It has only 94 inhabitants, and about 400 acres of land, belonging to Col. Austen, Mr. L. Lindon, and other freeholders. Dives Hall, an old manor house, partly encompassed … Read more
1848 Whites directory Chignal St JamesCHIGNAL ST. JAMES, is a small parish, 3 miles N.W. by W. of Chelmsford, containing only 252 souls, and about 909 acres of land, between two tributary streams of the river Can. It has been variously at the Domesday Survey. is in two manors, one called Chignal St.-Mary and St.-James, … Read more
Stock and Buttsbury 1848 Whites directory BUTTSBURY parish, 2½ miles E. of Ingatestone, and 6½ miles S. by W. of Chelmsford, has 521 inhabitants, and 2,021 acres of land, including 104A. ofwood, and 15A. of waste. Its houses are mostly intermixed with the village of Stock , and its Church ( St. Mary,) is a … Read more
Broomfield 1848 Whites directoryBROOMFIELD is a pleasant scattered village, with many good houses, 2 miles N. of Chelmsford, on the road to Braintree, Dunmow, &c. , and on the western side of the vale of the Chelmer, of which it commands pleasing views. Its parish is very fertile, and contains 820 souls, and 1,954 acres. … Read more
Boreham 1848 Whites directoryBOREHAM, a scattered village on and near the Colchester road, and the Eastern Counties Railway, from 3 to 4 miles N.E. of Clelmsford, and 5 miles S.W. of Witham, has in its parish 1,054 souls, and 3,740 acres of land, including 162A. of wood, and 40A. of waste. The soil is various, … Read more
Blackmore 1848 Whites directory BLACKMORE, 3 and a half miles W.N.W. of Ingatestone, and E. by S. of Chipping Ongar, is a pleasant village, though in a low situation. It has in its vicinity numerous springs, strongly tinctured with sulphate of iron, and forming the chief sources of the river Can. Its parish contains 709 … Read more