Billericay history and accessibility
Ardleigh 1848 Whites Directory ARDLEIGH, a pleasant village on the Colchester and Manningtree road, 5 miles N.E. of the former, and 4 miles S.W. of the latter town, has a Station , with a large yard for coal, lime, &c., on the Eastern Union Railway, near which an extensive steam corn-mill has recently been erected. … Read more
Alresford 1848 Whites Directory ALRESFORD is a pleasant village and parish, on the eastern side of the vale of the river Colne, 5 miles S.E. of Colchester, containing 289 souls, and 1427A. 2R. 25P. of land, watered by two rivulets, which fall into a creek of the Colne, on the south side of the parish. … Read more
Tendring Hundred 1848 Whites Directory – parishes in this Hundred TENDRING HUNDREDIs a peninsular district, bounded on the north by the estuary of the river Stour, which separates it from Suffolk ; on the east, by the German Ocean ; on the south, by the latter and the estuary of the river Colne; and on … Read more
Roding Beauchamp 1848 Whites directory ROOTHING-BEAUCHAMP, or Roding Beauchamp, is a parish of scattered houses, on the west side of the river Roding. It has 1259 acres of land, and 246 inhabitants, including the small hamlet of Bird’s Green. T. W.Bramston, Esq., is lord of the manor, and owner of a great part of the … Read more
Abbots Roding 1848 Whites directory ROOTHING, (ABBOTS) or RODING-ABBESS, is a parish of scattered houses, at the north end of this Hundred, 6 miles N. by E. of Chipping Ongar, adjacent to eight other Roothings, or Rodings, which are intersected by and have their common name from the river Roding . This parish contains only … Read more
High Ongar 1848 Whites directory ONGAR ( HIGH) is a large village on the Epping and Chelmsford road, about a mile N.E. of Chipping Ongar, and its parish contains 4181 acres of land, and 1240 inhabitants. It may be considered asuburb of the market town of Ongar, from which it is separated only by the … Read more
Chipping Ongar 1848 Whites directory ONGAR ( CHIPPING) is a small and remarkably clean and neat market town, pleasantly situated betwixt and near the confluence of the river Roding and the Cripsey brook, on the London and Dunmow road, 20 miles N.E. of the former, 14 miles S. by W. of the latter, 7 miles … Read more
North Weald Bassett 1848 Whites directory NORTH WEALD BASSETT is a scattered village, partly called Weald Gullet, and situated from 2 to 3 miles N.E. of Epping. Its parish contains 886 inhabitants, and about 3000 acres of land, includ- ing a common of 300 acres, and the hamlets of HASLINGwood and THORNWOOD, which are in … Read more
Norton Mandeville 1848 Whites directory NORTON MANDEVILLE parish has only 134 souls, and 727A. 1R.39P. of land, though the village is situated more than a mile E. of the church, round a small heath or common, on the Chelmsford and Epping road, 3 miles E. of Chipping Ongar. At the Domesday survey it belonged to … Read more
Navestock 1848 Whites directory NAVESTOCK, a pleasant scattered village, from 4 to 5 miles S. of Chipping Ongar, and from 5 to 7 miles N.N.E. of Romford, is partly on the south side of the vale of the Roding, and partly on the cultivated heath, which has a hilly surface, and extends southward to the … Read more