Beaumont cum Moze, Essex
Historical Description
Beaumont-cum-Moze, a parish in Essex, near the head of an inlet of the North Sea, between the Naze and Harwich, 2 miles N from Thorpe station on the G.E.R., and 10 E of Colchester, under which it has a post office of the name of Beaumont; money order and telegraph office, Thorpe-le-Soken. Acreage, 3058, of which 221 are foreshore and water; population, 402. Beaumont Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £464 with residence. The church is good, and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Beaumont cum Moze St. Leonard | |
Hundred | Tendring | |
Poor Law union | Tendring |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Moze register of baptisms dates from 1548; burials, 1556, and marriages, 1559; the Beaumont registers of baptisms and burials date from 1564, and marriages, 1567.
Churches
Church of England
St Leonard (parish church)
The church of St. Leonard, pleasantly seated on a hill, is an edifice of rubble stone, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch, and a western bellcote of stone containing 2 bells: there is a small Norman window filled with stained glass in the north side of the chancel, but the principal portions or the edifice are Early English: the east window and a smaller one on the south side of the chancel are examples of Decorated work: the east window and eight others are stained: the south porch is of ancient oak: the church has 180 sittings.
St Mary
The parishes of Beaumont and Moze were united by Act of Parliament in 1678: the church of Moze (St. Mary), being dilapidated, was taken down and the materials utilized in restoring the church at Beaumont: its site was in a hollow near the present Old Moze Hall, but no vestiges of it now remain.
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 Beaumont cum Moze from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Beaumont cum Moze (St. Leonard))
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 Beaumont cum Moze 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: