Billericay

My name is Kevan Wilding, a wheelchair user who regularly crosses the railway bridge at Mountnessing Road in my vehicle. The narrow footpath on this bridge, which I speed across at 30mph, is just wide enough for  one pedestrian. The looming threat of an accident with 480 new houses planned nearby being planned; I now … Read more

Firstly, before we continue. I am a socialist on the left wing and have never voted Conservative, and could never be so stupid as to vote for Farage and his bunch. I now live in Billericay, and I really like it. Billericay High street needs to update its barriers to disability, i.e. remove some of … Read more

Heybridge 1848 Whites Directory HEYBRIDGE, a considerable village, on the north side of the river Blackwater, is a northern suburb of Maldon, and its parish has been included in the Parliamentary Borough of Maldon, by the Reform Act of 1832. In it is situated the canal basin, and the short cuts which connect it with … Read more

Wimbish Whites Directory in 1863 WIMBISH, a pleasant straggling village,from 3 to 4 miles S.E. by E. of Saffron-Walden, has in its parish 939 inhabitants, and 4581 acres of land, including THUNDERLEY hamlet, on the west ; Wimbish Green, 1½ mile S.E. of the church; and many scattered farm-houses, &c. Thundersley was anciently a separate … Read more

Bradfield 1848 Whites Directory BRADFIELD is a pleasant and well-built village on an acclivity on the south side of the estuary of the river Stour, and mostly on the Manningtree and Harwich road, 3 miles E. by S. of the former, and 9 miles W. by S. of Harwich. Its parish contains 995 inhabitants, and … Read more

Rochford 1848 Whites Directory ROCHFORD, a small ancient market town and polling place, gives name to the Hundred and Union of Rochford, in which it holds a central situation, on the river Broomhill, crossed by two small bridges, 4 miles N. by W. of Southend, 17 miles S.E. of Chelmsford, and 40 miles E. by … Read more

BRAINTREE AND BOCKING 1848 Whites Directory Trades Hempen Cloth to Milliners HEMPEN CLOTH & MATTRESS MANUFACTURERS.Hubbert Joseph, Bradford street, BNegus Nathan, Bradford street, B HOTELS, INNS, & TAVERNS.Bell, Nathan Poole, Great squareBird in Hand, Samuel Piggin, Coggeshall roadBlack Boy, Chas. Cook, Church street BBlack Lion, (commercial & excise office,) Joseph Cook, Great squareBoar’s Head, James … Read more

Belchamp St Pauls 1848 Whites directoryBELCHAMP ST. PAUL’S is a long straggling village, on an eminence, from 2 to 3 miles S.E. of Clare, and its parish contains 731 souls and 2500 acres of land, bounded on the north by the river Stour.A cattle fair is held on December 11th, on Cole- Green, at the … Read more

Ingrave 1848 Whites directoryINGRAVE, a handsome village at the north end of that of Herongate, and on the east side of the extensive park of Thorndon Hall, is delightfully situated, 2 miles S.E. of Brentwood, and its parish contains 1792A. 2R. ofland, partly in the park, and partly in open and common lands, which are … Read more

THURROCK (LITTLE) is a village and parish, on the north bank of the Thames, 1 mile east of Grays Thurrock, and 2 miles N.W. of Tilbury Fort. It contains 292 souls, and about 1400 acres of land, rising boldly from the marshes, and generally fertile and well cultivated. At Domesday Survey it was held by … Read more