In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Southminster like this:
SOUTHMINSTER, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Maldon district, Essex. The village stands at the terminus of the South Essex railway, 9 miles SE of Maldon; and has a post-office under Maldon, a literary institute, and a fair on 20 Sept. The parish comprises 6,261 acres of land, and 1,440 of foreshore. ...
Real property, £10,649. Pop., 1,424. Houses, 326. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £418.* Patron, the Charterhouse, London. The church is ancient, cruciform, and good. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists, national and British schools, and charities £41.—The sub-district contains six parishes. Acres, 21,923. Pop., 4,639. Houses, 989.
Southminster through time
Southminster is now part of Maldon district. Click here for graphs and data of how Maldon has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Southminster itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Southminster, in Maldon and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6904
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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