Fobbing, Essex
Historical Description
Fobbing, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands on a hill, near Holehaven Creek, 2 miles N of the Thames, 2½ NE by E of Stanford-le-Hope station, London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, and 7½ SSE of Billericay, and was the place where Jack Cade's rebellion began. The parish comprises 2140 acres; population of the civil parish, 357; of the ecclesiastical, 409. It has a post office under Stanford-le-Hope (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Stanford-le-Hope. Much of the land is marshy. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross yearly value, £573 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church—a fine stone building, erected in the earlier part of the 15th century, stands high, has a lofty tower, and forms a conspicuous object at a great distance. Thames Haven in this parish has a branch line of the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, and a dock used for unloading cattle for the London market. Cowper describes the adjacent scenery thus:-u Here, Thames, slow gliding through a level plain Of spacious meads, with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along its sinuous course, Delighted."
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Fobbing St. Michael | |
Hundred | Barstable | |
Poor Law union | Orsett |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Fobbing from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fobbing (St. Michael))
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 Fobbing are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: