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    Great Burstead is an urban settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great Burstead and South Green, in the Basildon district, in Essex...
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    here. There is a local tradition that Sæberht lived, and was buried at Great Burstead in Essex. In 2003 a high-status Anglo-Saxon tomb was discovered at Prittlewell...
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    founded in the 13th century by the Abbot of West Ham, in his Manor of Great Burstead. During the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the Essex rebels were defeated...
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    Magdalene is a Grade I-listed parish church located in the village of Great Burstead, about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) south of Billericay, Essex, England.While the...
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    Great Burstead and South Green is a civil parish in the Basildon district, in the county of Essex, England. The parish includes the settlements of Great...
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  • She was buried alongside her mother at St. Mary Magdalen church in Great Burstead, Essex. A subsequent inquest determined that her death was not directly...
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    [self-published source] Christopher Martin first appears in the records of Great Burstead, Essex, England, with his 1607 marriage to a widow by the name of Mary...
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    Hill side and came down at Snail's Hall Farm off Green Farm Lane in Great Burstead, crashing at 01:30 on farm land; the 650-foot-long airship struck a...
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  • Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is a 2018 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Ben Wheatley and featuring Neil Maskell as the title character...
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    America. Among the 102 passengers were six Essex residents from the Great Burstead area, south-west of Harwich. These included Christopher Martin, the...
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    for Great Burstead and South Green is styled a "village council". The civil parishes are: Billericay Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet Great Burstead and...
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    (possibly Norfolk).[self-published source?] Martin, Christopher* 38 (Great Burstead, Essex). Mayflower Governor & Purchasing Agent. Mary (Prowe) Martin*...
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    High Street, coming down at Snail's Hall Farm off Green Farm Lane, Great Burstead at 1:30 a.m. All 22 men of the crew were killed, with some, including...
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  • CM11 BILLERICAY Billericay (East), Great Burstead Basildon, Chelmsford CM12 BILLERICAY Billericay (West), Little Burstead Basildon, Brentwood CM13 BRENTWOOD...
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    Basildon (redirect from Great Berry)
    Laindon and West of Noak Bridge. It is so named because the steeples of Great Burstead Church, St. Mary the Virgin Church and St Nicholas Church, Basildon...
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  • 2C on 24 September 1916 near Great Burstead, Essex, all the crew dying. The crew's bodies were buried at Great Burstead, then exhumed in 1966 and reburied...
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    building. Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Great Burstead Billericay 12th-century Anglican church in Great Burstead. Grade I listed building. Dale Farm Crays...
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    (fachwerk) walls. 14th Century West Tower at St Mary Magdalene church, Great Burstead, showing original Putlocks from artisans Viga (architecture) "Definition...
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    Nautical Miles. The Crouch rises in 'The Wilderness' on the Burstead Golf course at Little Burstead. The Wilderness consists of several small ponds surrounded...
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    01.52°W / 54.53; -01.52 NZ3116 Great Burstead Essex 51°36′N 0°25′E / 51.60°N 00.42°E / 51.60; 00.42 TQ6892 Great Busby North Yorkshire 54°26′N 1°11′W...
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    included a long finger of land north into the neighbouring parish of Great Burstead to include Laindon Common and the once larger and adjacent Frith Wood...
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    majorities. The Borough of Basildon wards of Billericay East, Billericay West, Burstead, Crouch, Fryerns, Laindon Park, Lee Chapel North and St Martin's. The seat...
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    persecutions. Protestant theologian and activist John Foxe described "the great persecutions & horrible troubles, the suffering of martyrs, and other such...
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    Farm Lane in Great Burstead, crashing at 01.30. The site drew enormous crowds. The crew's bodies (22 in total) were buried at Great Burstead Church under...
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  • 74 2nd Lt Frederick Sowrey B.E.2c No. 39 Home Defence Squadron 4112 Great Burstead, Essex 24 September 1916 L 33 LZ 76 Alfred Brandon B.E.2e fighter No...
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    March 2018. Bradshaw, Peyter (13 October 2018). "Happy New Year, Colin Burstead review – Ben Wheatley contrives a simmering hothouse of misery". The Guardian...
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    of the Thames in 1338 saw the monks decamp to their landholdings at Great Burstead in Essex, and in 1381, the Abbey was invaded by the Peasants' Revolt...
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    itself. It is thought that 500 Essex men were killed and buried at Great Burstead churchyard, and 800 horses were captured. The few survivors who didn't...
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  • West and Chester Borough Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) (Great Boughton) Order 2019" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England...
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    East Tilbury, Fobbing, Great Burstead, Horndon-on-the-Hill, Hutton, Ingrave, Laindon, Langdon Hills, Lee Chapel, Little Burstead, Little Thurrock, Mucking...
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