Ramsden Bellhouse

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.

Ramsden Bellhouse
St. Mary the Virgin, Ramsden Bellhouse
Ramsden Bellhouse Location within Essex
Population	730 ^[1]
OS grid reference	TQ721943
• London	27 miles (43 km) WSW
District	Basildon
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BILLERICAY
Postcode district	CM11
Dialling code	01268
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Billericay
List of places UK England Essex 51°37′23″N 0°28′56″E / 51.623°N 0.4823°E / 51.623; 0.4823

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]

• Village sign
• River Crouch passing under Church Road.

See also

• Ramsden Heath

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 30 December 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. "The Domesday Book Online - Essex P-S".

External links

• Basildon Heritage
• Basildon Borough History - Ramsden

  Media related to Ramsden Bellhouse at Wikimedia Commons