Little Burstead
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 ofthe Great Eastern railway, and 6 east from Brentwood.
The church recently assigned to St Mary, is a small building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave, south porch and a low, western turret with spire, containing two bells.
The register dates from the year 1681. The living is a rectory, yearly value £230, with residence and 32 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of St Albans, and held since 1900 by the Rev William George Trousdale BA of St Johns College, Oxford, and chaplain of the Billericay workhouse.
Stockwell Hall is the residence of the Hon John Henry Savile, DL, JP and has attached grounds of 20 acres. Hope House is the residence of Robert Baines Johnson, esq JP. Major Alan Herbert Watlington Lowndes, of Marks Hill, Dunmow, who is lord of the manor, and Edgar Jones esq, of The Elms, Great Burstead are the principal landowners.
The soil is loamy; subsoil loamy. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and barley. The area is 1,839 acres; the population in 1901 was 248 in the civil and 308 in the exxlesiastical parish.
Private Residents
Johnson Robert Baines JP, The Hope House
Savile Hon John Henry DL, JP, Stockwell Hall
Thompson James Andrew Baird MD, postal address, Laindon, Romford
Trousdale Rev William George BA, rector, Rectory
Commercial
Butcher George, head gardener to Rt Baines Johnson esq JP
Cottis John, baker, postal address, Laindon, Romford
Davidson James Cathie S, farmer
Gibson Cornelius, farmer
Shepherd Joseph, farmer, Sudburys
TThompson James Andrew Baird MD, physician & surgeon, postal address, Laindon, Romford
Wood John, farm bailiff to Edmund J Cole esq St Margarets