SOUTH FAMBRIDGE is a parish on the south bank of the river Crouch, 3 miles north from Rochford station on the Southend branch of the Greater Anglia railway, 8 ½ south from Maldon and 7 ½ north from Southend, in the South Eastern division of the county, Rochford hundred, petty sessional division and union, Southend county court district, and in the rural deanery of Rochford, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of St. Albans. The river is here crossed by ferry boats. The church of All Saints, erected in 1846, is a small edifice of white brick in the Early English style, built in place of an earlier church, and consisting simply of nave and a western tower of wood containing one bell: there are 60 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from 1765; burials, 1775; marriages, 1754. The living is a rectory, annexed to Ashingdon, joint net yearly value £330, with 125 acres of glebe, in the gift of John Bourne esq. of Whitby, Yorks, and held since 1900 by the Rev. John Imrie M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, who resides at Ashingdon. Messrs. Wimshurst, Hollick and Co. are the chief landowners. The soil is a strong clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans &c. The area is 1,189 acres of land, 3 of water, 74 of tidal water and 38 of foreshore; rateable value, £1,142; the population in 1901 was 179.
The children of this parish attend the school at Ashingdon.
— Kelly's Directory of Essex (1902)
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