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 is located in Essex
Ramsden Bellhouse
Ramsden Bellhouse
Location within Essex
Population730 [1]
OS grid referenceTQ721943
• London27 miles (43 km) WSW
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBILLERICAY
Postcode districtCM11
Dialling code01268
PoliceEssex
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AmbulanceEast of England
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51°37′23″N 0°28′56″E / 51.623°N 0.4823°E / 51.623; 0.4823

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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

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  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".
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