Ramsden Bellhouse

Village in Essex, England

Human settlement in England

Basildon

Essex

Region

East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBILLERICAYPostcode districtCM11Dialling code01268PoliceEssexFire 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

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.

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.

References

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