Pitsea, Essex
Historical Description
Pitsea, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands near a creek of the Thanie, and near the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, 5 miles WSW of Rayleigh, and has a station on the railway. The parish is mainly peninsulated by creeks, and includes part of Canvey Island. It has a post office under Bowers Gifford (S.O,); money order office, Bowers Gifford; telegraph office, at the railway station. Acreage, 1693; population, 235. The parish council consists of five members. The manor was held at the Norman Conquest by Ulneva, the wife of Phin. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £300. The church stands on a knoll, commanding a fine view of the surrounding country and the Thames, and is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chance!, nave, S porch, and an embattled western tower.
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 | Pitsea St. Michael | |
Hundred | Barstable | |
Poor Law union | Billericay |
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 Pitsea from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pitsea (St. Michael))
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 Pitsea 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: