Ashingdon Essex Family History Guide
Ashingdon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex.
Alternative names: Ashington
Parish church: St Andrew
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1564
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1802
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Adjacent Parishes
- Canvey Island
- Hawkwell
- Hockley
- Fobbing
- Canewdon
- Stow Maries
- South Fambridge
- Little Warley
- Corringham
- Rochford
- North Fambridge
- Little Stambridge
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASHINGDON, a parish in Rochford district, Essex; near the river Crouch, 2¼ miles N of Rochford and 6 NNE of Leigh r. station. Post Town, Rochford, under Ingatestone.
Acres, 1,165. Real property, £1,878. Pop., 99. Houses, 17. The property is divided among a few.
Ashingdon disputes with Ashdon being the ancient Assandune, the scene of Canute’s victory over Edmund Ironside in 1016. An ancient camp was formerly at Canewdon; a great group of barrows, supposed to be the graves of the Danes, is in the neighbouring parish of Woodham-Mortimer; and a church built by Canute, in commemoration of his victory, is said to have stood in the neighbouring village of Hockley.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £254. Patron, the Rev. S. Nottidge. The church is ancient, and has a fine view.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Ashingdon, 1 m. N. Rochford. P. 119
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ASHINGDON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Rochford, S. division of Essex, 2¼ miles (N. by W.) from Rochford; containing 119 inhabitants.
This place is thought by the best writers to have been the scene of the battle of Assandune, in which Canute the Dane, after a sanguinary contest, vanquished the Saxons under Edmund Ironside. The parish comprises 1165a. 1r. 11p.
The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £8. 13. 4., and in the gift of the Nottidge family: the tithes have been commuted for £285, and there are 20 acres of glebe.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Rochford
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Rochford
- Poor Law Union: Rochford
- Hundred: Rochford
- Province: Canterbury