Steeple or Steeple cum Stangate, Essex
Historical Description
Steeple or Steeple-cum-Stangate, a village and a parish in Essex, on the S bank of the Blackwater estuary, 3 miles NW from Southminster station on the G.E.R., and 9 SE of Maldon. There is a post office under Southminster (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Southminster. Acreage, 2727; population, 460. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Most of the property belongs to St Bartholomew's Hospital. It formerly had fairs on Whit-Monday and the Wednesday after Michaelmas, but these have become obsolete. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £100 with residence. The church, erected in 1882, is a building of stone in the Decorated style. There was formerly a church at Stangate, the remains of which are to be seen in a barn. There is a Congregational chapel, and a chapel belonging to the Peculiars.
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 Steeple or Steeple cum Stangate 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: