North Fambridge, Essex

Historical Description

Fambridge, North, a parish in Essex, on the river Crouch, at a ferry to South Fambridge, 6½ miles S from Maldon. It lias a station on the Southminster branch of the G.E.R. Post town, Maldon; money order office, Stow Maries; telegraph office, Latchingdon. Acreage, 1248; population, 151. Fambridge is thought to be a corruption of Foambridge, and to have been derived from a bridge which anciently stood liere, and raised foam in the current. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £218. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of red brick in the Perpendicular style, and has been restored recently.

Administration

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

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 North Fambridge from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fambridge, North (Holy Trinity))

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 North Fambridge 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:

• Chelmsford Chronicle
• Essex Newsman
• Essex Standard