Billericay history and accessibility
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 mid division of the county, Chelmsford hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Barstable, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of … Read more
This is Billericay High street in 1937 with mentions of pubs through the years, and current 2025 shops and restaurants, plus my rant about accessibility.
Where do I start with how to research the history of Billericay? Well, the first thing is to live in Billericay itself. I actually moved back to Billericay on Halloween night in 2024? Just a short drive away from Billericay, is Chelmsford, which was recently made a city, and it owns the magnificent Essex Record … Read more
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 from Brentwood, 9 south from Chelmsford and 23 from Whitechapel church, and was formed into … Read more
Great Burstead or Burghstead, , is a pleasant village and parish on the road from Billericay to Tilbury, 1.5 miles south of Billericay Station 0n the Southend on Sea branch of the Great Eastern railway, and 7 west from Brentwood.The small market town of Billericay is in this parish for civil purposes, but was constitutrd … Read more
Billericay Union comprises the 26 parishes of Basseldon, North and South Benfleet. Bowers Gifford, Brentwood, Great and Little Burstead, Childerditch, Downham, Dunton, East and West Horndon, Hutton, Ingrave, Laindon, Mountnessing, Nevendon, Pitsea, Ramsden Bellhouse, Ramsden Crays, Shenfield, South Weald, Thundersley, Vange and Wickford. It has two small market towns, viz, Brentwood and Billericay, the latter … Read more
The 1911 census is also summarised and can be useful in tracing the route of the enumerator: Here is District 6 which lists the entirety of Billericay High street. Great Burstead; St Mary Magdalene, 428 inhabitantsHall cottages Laindon road ; Kennel Lane Cottages & the road opposite, over South Green do fur and including Bowfalls … Read more
Billericay is a small decayed market town and head of a union, and a polling place for the Southern division of the County, a separate parish for ecclesiastical purposes, but for civil purposes within the parish of Great Burstead, in the hundred of Barstable, Brentwood county court and police district; it is situated on an … Read more
Billericay is a small town 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, 5 miles east from Brentwood, 9 south from Chelmsford and 23 from Whitechapel church, and was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish 14 … Read more
Little Burstead or Burghstead, is a parish near the source of the river Crouch, 2 miles south west from Billericay station, on the Southend on Sea branch of the London and North Eastern railway, and 6 east from Brentwood.The parish is now governed by the Billericay Urban District Council.The church assigned to St Mary, is … Read more