Thundersley, Essex
Historical Description
Thundersley, a parish in Essex, 1¾ mile SW of Rayleigh station on the G.E.R., and 2½ miles N by E of South Benfleet station on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway. It has a post office under Rayleigh (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Rayleigh. Acreage, 2545; population, 556. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Bosanquet family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £369 with residence. The church, which stands on an eminence, is a small but ancient edifice in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western turret of wood, with a spire. The church was restored and partly rebuilt in 1885 and 1887.
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 | Thundersley St. Peter | |
Hundred | Rochford | |
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 Thundersley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thundersley (St. Peter))
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 Thundersley 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: