Ramsden Bellhouse

Ramsden Bellhouse

St. Mary the Virgin, Ramsden Bellhouse
Ramsden Bellhouse
 Ramsden Bellhouse shown within Essex
Population 730 [1]
OS grid referenceTQ721943
   – London  27 miles (43 km) WSW 
DistrictBasildon
Shire countyEssex
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited 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 ParliamentBillericay
List of places
UK
England
Essex

Coordinates: 51°37′23″N 0°28′56″E / 51.623°N 0.4823°E / 51.623; 0.4823

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 entry reads:

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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