Laindon Essex Family History Guide
Laindon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Essex. Basildon is a chapelry of Laindon.
Other places in the parish include: Langdon Clay.
Alternative names: Langdon
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1800
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Little Burstead
- Lee Chapel
- Billericay
- Fobbing
- Great Burstead
- Vange
- Pitsea
- Corringham
- Basildon
- Bowers Gifford
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LAINDON, a village and a parish in Billericay district, Essex.
The village stands near the source of the river Crouch, 3½ miles NW of Pitsea r. station, and 3½ S by E of Billericay; and has a post-office under Ingatestone.
The parish includes Basildon chapelry; and, in the part around Laindon village, is sometimes called Langdon-Clay. Acres of that part, 2,372; of the whole, 3,999. Real property of Langdon-Clay, £3,337; of the whole, £5,264. Pop. of L.-C., 406; of the whole, 586. Houses of L.-C., 81; of the whole, 106. The property is divided among a few. A moated house is near Basildon church.
The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Basildon, in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £779. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The parish church stands on a rising ground, and consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with tower and spire. The church of Basildon also stands on a rising ground, and has a tower.
There are a free school with £20 a-year, and other charities £34.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Billericay
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Barstable
- Poor Law Union: Billericay
- Hundred: Barstable
- Province: Canterbury