Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHOEBURY (North)

SHOEBURY (North), a parish in Rochford district, Essex; on the coast, 3½ miles E of Southend r. station. Post town, Southchurch, under Southend. Acres, 2,131; of which 1,045 are water. Real property, £2,518. Pop., 193. Houses, 40. The manor belongs to G. A. W. Welch, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £185.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient but good.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: North Shoebury CP/AP       Rochford RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place names: NORTH SHOEBURY     |     SHOEBURY     |     SHOEBURY NORTH
Place: North Shoebury

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