Ramsden_Bellhouse

Ramsden Bellhouse

Ramsden Bellhouse

Village in Essex, England

Ramsden Bellhouse is a village and civil parish in Essex in the east of England. It is in the Borough of Basildon and in the parliamentary constituency of Billericay.

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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 in north Kent.[3]

Its full Domesday Book entry from 1086 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]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Area selected: Basildon (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Essex Explorer". Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  3. [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. [4]
    "The Domesday Book Online - Essex P-S".

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