Ramsden Bellhouse
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Ramsden Bellhouse | |
Essex | |
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St Mary the Virgin, Ramsden Bellhouse | |
Location | |
Grid reference: | TQ721943 |
Location: | 51°37’23"N, -0°28’56"E |
Data | |
Population: | 730 (2011 [1]) |
Post town: | Billericay |
Postcode: | CM11 |
Dialling code: | 01268 |
Local Government | |
Council: | Basildon |
Parliamentary constituency: |
Billericay |
Ramsden Bellhouse is a village and parish in the Barnstable Hundred of Essex.
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
- ↑ "Area selected: Basildon (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790385. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
- ↑ "Essex Explorer". http://www.essexexplorer.co.uk/rivercrouch.html. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/essex4.html
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