South Fambridge, Essex
Historical Description
Fambridge, South, a parish in Essex, on the river Crouch, opposite North Fambridge, S miles N from Eochford station on the G.E. E. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Rochford (S.O.) Acreage, 1189 of land and 115 of tidal water; population, 79i The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £80 with residence. The church is a small building of brick in the Early English style.
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 | South Fambridge All Saints | |
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 South Fambridge from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fambridge, South (All Saints))
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 South Fambridge 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: