History of Billericay

Billericay, High Street 1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.

White's Directory of Essex 1848

BILLERICAY, a small market town and chapelry, in the parish of Great Burstead, has 1284 inhabitants, and is pleasantly >>more.

White's Directory of Essex 1848 - list of inhabitants.

More local history sources

Books featuring Billericay from Abebooks. Just click the logo. The search terms are already formatted for Billericay.

Search for Billericay census returns at ancestry.co.uk.

1841 England Census | 1851 England Census | 1861 England Census
1871 England Census | 1881 England Census | 1891 England Census
1901 England Census

High Street, Billericay
Reproduced courtesy of Footsteps.
Quality reproductions of old photographs.

The Essex Record Office: an excellent starting point for research. The ERO has an online catalogue by the name of SEAX and a database of Parish Records held in the ERO. Access to both via their home page.

Community web site with the history of Billericay and a historical tour of the town.

Council web site with some of the history of Billericay.

Brief archeological history of Billericay on the Essex County Council's Unlocking Essex.

History of the Billericay Workhouse.

The history of various churches in the Billericay area.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 068, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

Ordnance Survey - type the place name in the gazetteer search box to view detailed map of Billericay.

Images of England web site which has a photographic record of England's listed buildings - from the grandest house to the humblest cottage. Enter the town or village in the search box. Photographs are accompanied by a detailed architectural description of the property.

Billericay
print published 1834