Ramsden Bellhouse

Ramsden Bellhouse is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. The village is in the Borough of Basildon and in the parliamentary constituency of Billericay.

Ramsden Bellhouse

St. Mary the Virgin, Ramsden Bellhouse
Ramsden Bellhouse
Location within Essex
Population730 [1]
OS grid referenceTQ721943
 London27 miles (43 km) WSW
District
  • Basildon
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBILLERICAY
Postcode districtCM11
Dialling code01268
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament

The River Crouch flows through Ramsden Bellhouse, flowing under Church Road.[2]

During the Middle Ages, Roger fitzReinfrid, a royal justice, held land at Ramsden Bellhouse, and later granted the church to Lesnes Abbey.[3]

Its full Domesday Book entry reads (in modern translation):

Ramesdana / -duna: William from Bishop of London; 2 men-at-arms from Bishop of Bayeux; Osbern from Hugh de Montfort; Robert Gernon and Ansketel from him; Humphrey from Ranulf, brother of Ilger. Mill, 4 beehives

Domesday Book[4]

See also

References

  1. "Area selected: Basildon (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  2. "Essex Explorer". Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  3. Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Ipswich, United Kingdom: Boydell Press. p. 942. ISBN 0-85115-863-3.
  4. http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/essex4.html

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