Billericay history and accessibility
MUCKING, a small scattered village near a small creek of the river Thames, 4 miles N.N.E. of Tilbury Fort, and 10 miles S. of Billericay, has in its parish 236 souls, and 2146 acres of cultivated land, and about 200 acres of open heath and waste. The south-east part is low but fertile marsh land, … Read more
BILLERICAY, a small market town and chapelry, in the parish ofGreat Burstead, has 1533 inhabitants, and is pleasantly situated on a commanding eminence, 24 miles E.N.E. of London, 10 miles S. of Chelmsford, and 5 miles E. of Brentwood Railway Station.It gives name to a large Union, and to a Polling District, comprising most of … Read more
BURSTEAD, (GREAT) or Great Burghsted, is a pleasant scattered village, near the head of the river Crouch, from 1 to 2 miles S.S.E. of Billericay, and has 722 inhabitants, but its parish comprises 2255 souls, and 3620 acres, of which about one half of the land, and 1533 souls, are in the town and chapelry … Read more
Barstable Hundred Whites 1863 Extends about 14 miles along the north bank of the river Thames, from Gravesend Reach and Tilbury Fort to Canvey Island; and is of an irregular figure, averaging about 11 miles inlength and breadth.It is bounded on the south by the Thames; on the east by Roch- ford Hundred and Chelmsford … Read more
Stock Farrow FarmStock, private, Mr PayneStock, private, Mr CableStock, Beeches Farm, West Hanningfield, Farmhouse, WhyhoStock, Forest Lodge, Farmhouse, HunterStock, Old Barn Farm, Ingatestone, Farmhouse, FullerStock, Crondon Hall, Ingatestone, Farmhouse, HodgeStock, Crondon Hall, private, NevillStock, Crondon Hall, private, BouttellStock, Crondon Park, private, WrightStock, Crondon Park, private, FreemanStock, Crondon Park, Farmhouse, CraigStock, Crondon Park, private, GladwinStock, Crondon … Read more
Stock, (or Stock Harvard) is a parish and pleasant village on the summit of a range of hills on the road from Chelmsford to Billericay, 3 miles south east from Ingatestone station on the main line of the Great Eastern railway and 3 north from Billericay on the branch line of that company from Shenfield … Read more
THE construction of a new branch in Essex of the Great Eastern Railway, during the last two years, from Shenfield to Wickford and so on to Rayleigh, has opened to the archæologist a comparatively new area of country, for to many this interesting old town of Billericay – one of the most ancient in the … Read more
I like to research a place by reading a number of sources. This journal talks a lot of sense and describes the area around Billericay well. It is written by J. A. SPARVEL BAYLY, F.S.A. In the Book of Chantries, it is stated of the above town, that it “ys a great towne and populous, … Read more
This directory should relate to the 1921 census for Billericay which has just been published. Billericay is a small town and head of a union, on an eminence at the junction of the road from London to Rochford and Southend, with that from Chelmsford to the ferry over the Thames at Tilbury, 6 miles east … Read more
Buttsbury is a parish on the road from Chelmsford, to Billericay, 3 miles south east from Ingatestone station, 3 north from Billericay and 5 south west from Chelmsford, in the Chelmsford division of the county, Chelmsford hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Barstable, archdeaconry of Essex and Chelmsford diocese. … Read more