Great Burstead, Essex
Historical Description
Burstead, Great, a parish in Essex, surrounding the town of Billericay, and including it for civil purposes; but the town is a separate ecclesiastical parish. The parish is 1½ mile S of Billericay station on the G.E.R., and 7 miles W from Brentwood, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Billericay. Acreage, 3709; population of the civil parish, 1962; of the ecclesiastical, 538. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross yearly value, £159 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of St Albans. The vicarage of Billericay is a separate benefice. The church is an old building of rubble in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and there is a Particular Baptist chapel.
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 | Burstead St. Mary Magdalene | |
Hundred | Barstable | |
Poor Law union | Billericay |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Great Burstead from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Burstead, Great (St. Mary Magdalene))
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 Great Burstead 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: