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Bradwell, Essex

Historical Description

Bradwell, Bradwell-near-the-Sea, or Bradwell-juxta-Mare, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands near the point of the peninsula between the Blackwater estuary and the sea, 7 miles NE from Southminster station on the G.E.R., and 5½ by water or 15 by road from Maldon. It has a post and money order office under Southminster; telegraph office, Tillingham. It occupies the site of the Roman Othona and the Saxon Ithancestre. The parish comprises 5012 acres of land and 5620 of water and foreshore; population, 914. There is a little trade in corn and coal, and a coastguard station. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £800 with residence. The church has some interesting brasses and monuments. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyEssex 
Ecclesiastical parishBradwell-near-the-Sea St. Thomas the Apostle 
HundredDengie 
Poor Law unionMaldon 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Cemeteries

A cemetery of 1 acre given by the late Rev. E. Owen M.A. rector, and now the property of the parish, was opened on the closing of the churchyard in 1878, and is under the control of the rector and churchwardens of the parish.


Churches

Church of England

St. Thomas the Apostle (parish church)

The church of St. Thomas the Apostle is an edifice of brick and stone, in the Early English style, and was partly rebuilt in 1706: it consists of chancel and nave and has a lofty embattled western tower of brick containing a clock and 5 bells, dated 1744: in the chancel wall are brasses to Margaret Wyatt, ob. 1526; to the Rev. John Debank, rector, ob. 1601; and to Thomas Debank, yeoman, ob. 1606: there is also a mural monument to the Paynter and Sherman families, dated 1666: the church has a Norman font and the sacramental plate includes a silver chalice, dated 1626: in 1866 the church was thoroughly restored, reseated with open benches and now affords 430 sittings.
The churchyard closed in 1878 when a new cemetery was opened.

Methodist

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Waterside

There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Waterside, erected in 1863.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bradwell from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.

The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.


Maps

Online maps of Bradwell are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online:

DistrictBraintree
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCM77
Post TownBraintree

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