North Shoebury
| North Shoebury | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 St Mary's Church, North Shoebury | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ930860 |
| Location: | 51°32’24"N, 0°46’54"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Southend-on-Sea |
| Postcode: | SS3 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Southend-on-Sea |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Southend-on-Sea |
North Shoebury is part of Shoeburyness, a suburb of the Southend-on-Sea in Essex. North Shoebury was historically a separate village and parish. In 1933, when the western part of the parish, including the village itself, was administratively absorbed into Southend-on-Sea, and the eastern part of the parish was added to Great Wakering. The area around the small village of North Shoebury saw extensive development during the 20th century, and it and Shoeburyness have become part of the built up area of Southend.
History
The name Shoebury means "shelter fortification" or "shoe fortification".[1]
In Saxon times, Shoebury formed a vill. By the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, the vill was divided into three estates or manors, listed as Essobiam or Sobiam within the Rochford Hundred of Essex.[2]
No church nor priest is mentioned at Shoebury in the Domesday Book. A church dedicated to St Andrew was built in the early 12th century at South Shoebury, originally as a chapel of ease to Prittlewell Priory.[3] By 1170 there was also a church at North Shoebury, also owned by Prittlewell Priory. The earliest surviving part of the current church at North Shoebury, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, was built around 1230. Much of the building was rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries, with the porch added in the 18th century. It is now a Grade II* listed building.[4]
North Shoebury and South Shoebury became separate parishes. North Shoebury was known as Little Shoebury, or Shoebury Parva (in Latin Parva Shoberi).[5][6][7]
In manorial terms, North Shoebury was split into two: North Shoebury Hall (also known as West Hall), and Kents (also known as Soberia).[8][9][10][5][11]
John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870–72 entry reads:[12]
SHOEBURY (North), a parish in Rochford district, Essex; on the coast, 3½ miles E of Southend r. station. Post town, Southchurch, under Southend. Acres, 2,131; of which 1,045 are water. Real property, £2,518. Pop., 193. Houses, 40. The manor belongs to G. A. W. Welch, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the Diocese of Rochester. Value, £185.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient but good.
At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), North Shoebury had a population of 403.[13]
With significant urban development in the area around the old village of North Shoebury and adjoining Shoeburyness, both became part of Southend-on-Sea's townscape.
Although the civil parish of North Shoebury was abolished in 1933, it remains an ecclesiastical parish.[14]
Outside links
- North Shoebury: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 4, pages 101-102
References
- ↑ "North and South Shoebury". The University of Nottingham. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Essex/North%20and%20South%20Shoebury. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ↑ and South Shoebury North Shoebury in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Heritage List 1322327: Church of St Andrew (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1112716: Church of St Mary the Virgin (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Philip Benton (1888). The History of Rochford Hundred, (together with the Parishes Comprised Within the Union,). 2-3. p. 907. ISBN 978-0-9516587-1-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=OkgBxak9f9cC&dq=%22north+shoebury%22&pg=PA907.
- ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward II.. 1895. p. 839.
- ↑ "North Shoebury Parish". University of Portsmouth. https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10246593.
- ↑ North Shoebury in 'Whites Directory' (1848)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1112717: Moat House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1112718: North Shoebury House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Ian Yearsley (15 April 2016). Southend in 50 Buildings. ISBN 978-1-4456-5189-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=DB2tCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22north+shoebury%22+kents&pg=PT77.
- ↑ Vision of Britain
- ↑ "Population statistics North Shoebury AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10246593/cube/TOT_POP. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ↑ "North Shoebury: St Mary the Virgin". The Church of England. https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/6500/more-information/.