North Shoebury, Essex
Historical Description
Shoebury, North, a parish in Essex, on the coast, 3 miles E of Southend,and 1½ mile N from Shoeburyness terminal station on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway. It has a post office under Southend-on-Sea; money order and telegraph office, Shoeburyness. Acreage, 1103; population, 184. The manor belongs to the Welch family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £96 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a western tower with shingled spire.
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 | North Shoebury St. Mary | |
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 North Shoebury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shoebury, North (St. Mary))
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 Shoebury 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: