Rawreth, Essex
Historical Description
Rawreth, a parish in Essex, on the river Crouch, 8 miles NW of Rayleigh, and 8 NW from Rochford. It is near the Battle Bridge station on the Southminster branch of the G.E.R. Post town and money order office, Battle Bridge, under Chelmsford; telegraph office, Wickford. Acreage, 2375; population, 323. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £484 with residence. Patron, Pembroke College, Cambridge. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle and S porch, S aisle commonly called Sion chapel, and an embattled western tower.
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 | Rawreth St. Nicholas | |
Hundred | Rochford | |
Poor Law union | Rochford |
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 Rawreth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rawreth (St. Nicholas))
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 Rawreth 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: