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Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex

Historical Description

Ramsden Bellhouse, a parish, with a village, in Essex, adjacent to the river Crouch, 2½ miles E by S of Billericay, and 2½ W of Wickford station on the G.E.R. It has a post office, of the name of Ramsden Heath, under Brentwood; money order and telegraph office, Billericay. Acreage, 2738;. population, 395. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Stock Harward, in the diocese of St Albans; joint net value, £400. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a western tower with shingled spire. There is a Congregational chapel.

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 parishRamsdon-Bellhouse St. Mary 
HundredBarstable 
Poor Law unionBillericay 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ramsden Bellhouse 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 Ramsden Bellhouse 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 districtCM11
Post TownBillericay

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