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North Benfleet, Essex

Historical Description

Benfleet, North, a parish in Essex, 2½ miles NE of Pitsea station on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, 2½ S of Wickford station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Bowers Gifford (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Wickford. Acreage, 1601; population, 169. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £420 with residence. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is a small but ancient building of stone and flint in the Early English style.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyEssex 
Ecclesiastical parishNorth Benfleet All Saints 
HundredBarstable 
Poor Law unionBillericay 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Churches

Church of England

All Saints (parish church)

The church of All Saints is a small and ancient fabric of stone and flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a modern western tower of brick, containing 2 bells: the chancel was rebuilt and the church reseated in the year 1871, and it now affords 100 sittings.


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 Benfleet from the following:


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 Benfleet are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online:

DistrictBasildon
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtSS13
Post TownBasildon

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