Ramsden Bellhouse

Ramsden Bellhouse

St. Mary the Virgin, Ramsden Bellhouse
Ramsden Bellhouse
Ramsden Bellhouse shown within Essex
Population 730 [1]
OS grid reference TQ721943
• London 27 miles (43 km) WSW
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BILLERICAY
Postcode district CM11 1
Dialling code 01268
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament

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.

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 December 30, 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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