Victorian Gazetteer Description (c. 1840s) FRESHWELL HUNDREDExtends about sixteen miles southward from the borders of Cambridgeshire, and varies from five to less than three in breadth. It gives rise to the river Pant, and to a tributary stream of the river Granta. ASHDON, a pleasant village near the source of a rivulet, 4 miles N.E. … Read more
AVELEY Aveley is a long and pleasant village situated on a bold rise about 2 miles north of the River Thames and Purfleet, 8 miles S.S.E. of Romford, and 15 miles east of London. The parish covers 2,852 acres, including 162 acres of woodland, and recorded 849 inhabitants in 1841, though 113 of these were … Read more
Great Burstead / Billericay – Blunds Walls & Hilltop Roman Site Parish: Great Burstead & BillericayCategory: Settlement, Enclosure, Burial Ground, Artefact ScatterSources: Early Essex directories; mid-19th-century antiquarian reports 1. Blunds Walls – Ancient Enclosure & Landscape Earthworks Historic Notes (rewritten) About a mile west of Billericay lies Blunds Walls Farm, historically connected with the medieval … Read more
Light Detection and Ranging, in Essex