Basildon street names; their meanings and origins

A hamlet and farm in the Hinckford Hundred and was mentioned in the Chancery Proceedings in 1422. Probably in old English "Old Cottage". Hamlet is near Bocking.

The manorial name of Audley commemorates the gift to Sir Thomas Audley by Henry VIII of the lands of the Abbey of Walden in 1538.

This is one of the old lane names in the designated area. It is just the name of the lane where the beehives were kept.

This name would perpetuate that of the moated house that stood near Holy Cross Church.

The first Lord Braybrooke in the late 18th Century took over Audley End, "the noblest house in Essex", on which he spent £100,000 on restorations and established the house as a treasure house of books and art. The third Lord Braybrooke is famous as the first editor of Pepys. The present Lord Braybrooke is the 9th holder of the title.

From the place name in the Winstree Hundred. The word "layer" is pure Scandinavian for "clay" and its use has no parallel elsewhere in Essex. Breton was held by the family of Lewis Brite in 1420.

Chester M. Hall (1703 to 1771) was the inventor of the Achromatic Telescope and was born at Leigh-on-Sea and lived at Sutton.

Named after the Billericay miller who ground flour for the voyage of the first "Mayflower".

George Courtauld was the founder of the Essex silk industry in the 18th century.

Rookes E.B. Crompton (1845 to 1940). Electrical Engineer pioneer motorist and founded the Chelmsford firm around 1875.

A field name since 1487 in Stebbing in the Hinckford Hundred.

That part of Lee Chapel lying to the east, i.e. Eastley.

Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) Twice elected president of USA (1953-1961)

St John Falstaf, a character in Shakespeare's play Henry V parts 1-11. The term Falstaffian means to act in a jovial way

Gerald Ford (1913) 38th President of USA (1974-1977)

The Gardiner family farmed Great Waskett Farm, just north of the Arterial from 1274

After the family of Gernons who held a Manor in Essex for 300 years.

One of the oldest farms in the County. Associated with the family of Robert de Gibecrake in 1287. It is situated in the Thurstable Hundred at Great Totham

This name has been given to both areas and farms here in Essex and in the Midlands. Here in Essex the farm in Mucking is associated with the family of Thomas Gubyun in 1306. Great Leighs was also called Gobions in 1376.

A farm in the Rochford Hundred. This name comes from the family of Grapinel who in the year 1086 held half a hide in the Manor of Prittlewell.

The word Hanlee, meaning a clearing, was used in 1323 in the parish of Fryerning in the Chelmsford Hundred.

Essex field name.

The name came from the soft, sticky London clay mud bath that the road became every time it rained!

A manor in Woodham Ferrers.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Twice elected President of USA (1801-1809)

Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953) was considered to be one of the most noteworthy contralto singers of the 20th century.

There are many farms in the County of this name. One in the Lexden Hundred was associated with the family of Robert Knyaght in Great Horkesley in 1450.

This is the old English name of a wood in Belshamo St. Pauls.

This was a messuage in this area owned by Sir John Tyrell who held the manor of the Bishop of London and of the King. Sir John died on 28th February 1540 leaving John Tyrell Esq., his son and heir, who was then 26 years old.

Lionel Luckyn (1742 - 1834) son of William Luckyn of Dunmow. Lionel Luckyn was the inventor of life boats.

The Lynge was the name of a river since lost in the development of Laindon. The river rose in the hill behind Laindon and flowed to the Crouch.

Mr A J Markham was the owner of a 250 acre farm who died aged 54 in 1929.

Robert Menzies (1894-1978) Twice Australian Prime minister 1939-1941 and 1949-1966

Miles Gray (1575 - 1649). Bell founder of Colchester, Langham and Saffron Walden

"Neville" is the family name of the Braybrooke family. "Shaw" is old English for "Copse".

Named after the 12th century church in Laindon, St. Nicholas

Sometimes written Pamphlins or more rarely and at a much earlier date Pamphlions. A name of a farm in the Uttlesford Hundred associated with the family of Geoffrey Pamphlun in 1306.

A farm in East Hanningfield mentioned in Chapman and Andre's survey of 1777 and then called Paperells.

Pomfret is Norman French. This word occurs in several localities where the farm road crosses small streams.

The enclosure, usually in the north with stone walls, and in the south nowadays with netting now that a large amount of the hedge has been cut down. Rantree or rowantree gives the name to the fold by its presence and was used to distinguish it from the other fold which might have had a different tree growing in it or in the hedge.

Ricolax was the wife of Sledda, the sixth century King of Essex and she was of the Rikelinges, the people who lived where the village of Rickling stands today in the Uttlesford Hundred.

Named after two American Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) and Franklin D Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Teagles is also very suitable for this area as it is an old English word for scrub land which, on account of the brambles and thorns, was difficult to enter easily.

There are two farms so named in the County, one in Tolleshunt D'Arcy which once belonged to Beeleigh Abbey and the other near Feering, in which parish land was owned by St John's Abbey in 1400. Both farms were evidently farmed by friars as they appear in the records as "ffreres" and "frere".

This is a common field name in Essex and occurs in many localities but nearly always denotes a field stretching down on a slope to a water course.

Thomasins were brush makers at Witham.

Tilney Turn is a field enclosed by a round sweep of the River Pant at Shalford in the Hinckford Hundred. Appropriate for the street for which it is proposed which is one continuous turn.

The name of an old Essex family who had their family seat at Navestock. The second Earl of Waldegrave was a friend of George II and attained fame by being Prime Minister for 5 days in 1757. He had no wish to hold the office, only allowing himself to be nominated to please the King.

A place where roads meet.

From the old English word "wene" meaning beautiful.

A farm in the Dengie Hundred - associated with the wife of Wymund Senescot in 1235. Barstable 10 and 20 Housing Areas.

Henry Winstanley, 1644 - 1703. Engineer and Engraver born in Saffron Walden.