Stambridge

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Stambridge
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Population680 (Parish, 2021)[1]
OS grid reference[[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] TQ899916]
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRochford
Postcode districtSS4
Dialling code01702
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Stambridge is a civil parish in the Rochford district in Essex, England. It is located north of the River Roach between Rochford and Paglesham. The parish includes the village of Great Stambridge, also known as Stambridge, and the smaller Little Stambridge. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 680.

History

The name "Stambridge" means "stone bridge".[2] The only bridge in the parish is now brick-built over the small stream that rises in Canewdon, flows under the road just south of the Royal Oak, and into the Roach near "Waldens".

In Saxon times, Stambridge was a vill. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the vill had fragmented into four estates or manors, each of which were listed as Stanbruge in the Rochford Hundred of Essex. The Domesday Book does not otherwise distinguish between the names of the manors, but historians have deduced that two of the manors became the parish of Great Stambridge (or Stambridge Magna) and the other two manors became the parish of Little Stambridge (or Stambridge Parva).[3][4]

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Parish church of St Mary and All Saints, Great Stambridge

Although no church or priest is mentioned at any of the Stambridge manors in the Domesday Book, it is known that Great Stambridge's parish church, dedicated to St Mary and All Saints, pre-dates the Norman Conquest.[5] Little Stambridge's parish church was dedicated to St Mary and stood to the east of Little Stambridge Hall, a manor house dating back to at least the 16th century.[6][7]

The two parishes were united into one ecclesiastical parish in 1889, and St Mary's at Little Stambridge was demolished in 1891.[8][7]

Although united for ecclesiastical purposes in 1889, Great Stambridge and Little Stambridge remained separate civil parishes until 1934, when they were also merged into a new civil parish called Stambridge.[9]

The centre of population in Great Stambridge has moved from around the church to the Royal Oak Inn area. The modern parish consists of approximately three square miles. The boundaries are, in the east, Biggins Farm (Paglesham Road); in the west Little Stambridge Hall; the south the River Roach; and in a line crossing Stambridge Road at "Richmonds" and number 159 Stambridge Road. In official postal addresses, the Royal Mail calls the village just "Stambridge" rather than "Great Stambridge".[10]

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A half-timbered house in Ballards Gore.

The hamlet of Ballards Gore lies at the northern edge of the parish, straddling the boundary with the neighbouring parish of Canewdon.[11]

Stambridge Mill

There was a tide mill at Stambridge for hundreds of years.[12] The building burned down in April 1965. At that time it was owned by Rankins the Millers.[13] It was demolished in 2014.[14]

Sport and leisure

The local football club, Corinthians FC, currently plays in the Essex Olympian League.

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Great and Little Stambridge Key to English Place-names". The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Powell-Smith, Anna. "[Great] Stambridge". Open Domesday. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Powell-Smith, Anna. "[Little] Stambridge". Open Domesday. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
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  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Little Stambridge Hall, Rochford: Initial Heritage Assessment. Hinchliffe Heritage for Rural Solutions. 2021. pp. 21–25. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kelly's Directory of Essex. 1914. p. 581. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Relationships and Changes Stambridge CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Find an address". Royal Mail. Retrieved 18 November 2025. (See for example postcode SS4 2AR.)
  11. ^ Ballards Gore, Rochford - area information, map, walks and more Retrieved 2018-02-27.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Horncastle, Sue. "Vanished Industries - Brickworks and Mills". rochforddistricthistory.org.uk. Rochford District Community Archive. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rochford, Stambridge Mill c.1955 - Francis Frith". www.francisfrith.com. Francis Firth. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stambridge Mill". www.hdr.uk.com. Havering Demolition & Recycling Ltd. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

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