Ballingdon cum Brinxdon, Essex
Historical Description
Ballingdon-cum-Brinxdon, a parish in Essex, on the northern verge of the county, 1 mile SW of Sudbury station on the G.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Sudbury, the telegraph office. The whole tract was long a parish under the name of Brundon, and seems to have been part of the manor of Brundon, which in the earliest times belonged to the family of Limesi. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of All Saints, Sudbury, in the diocese of Ely. There is no church.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Hundred | Hinckford | |
Poor Law union | Sudbury |
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 Ballingdon cum Brinxdon from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ballingdon)
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.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: