Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEVENDON, or Newendon

NEVENDON, or Newendon, a parish in Billericay district, Essex; 2½ miles N by W of Pitsea r. station, and 4½ S E of Billericay. Post-town, Battle-Bridge, under Chelmsford. Acres, 991. Real property, £1, 380. Pop., 205. Houses, 39. The property is divided among a few. The manor appears on record so early as the time of Edward the Confessor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £230. Patrons, the Representatives of the late S. Kevall, Esq. The churchcomprises nave and chancel, and was recently in disrepair.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Nevendon CP/AP       Billericay RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place names: NEVENDON     |     NEVENDON OR NEWENDON     |     NEWENDON
Place: Nevendon

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