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
Great Burstead or Burghstead, is a pleasant village and parish on the road from Billericay to Tilbury, 2.5 miles south of Billericay Station on the Southend on Sea branch of the London and North Eastern railway, and 7 west from Brentwood.A stream flows through the parish.The church of St Mary Magdalen is a building of … Read more
The 1911 census is also summarised and can be useful in tracing the route of the enumerator: Here is District 5. Great Burstead; St Mary Magdalene, 428 inhabitantsHall cottages Laindon road ; Kennel Lane Cottages & the road opposite, over South Green do fur and including Bowfalls or Rose Farm & Cottages near, Hummerstone Main … Read more
Great Burstead (or Burghstead), is a pleasant village and parish, a mile and a half to the south of Billericay, and on the road to Tilbury, in the Southern division of the county, union of Billericay.The small market town of Billericay is in this parish for civil purposes, but a separate parish for ecclesiastical purposes. … 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