As with the rest of the UK, in any emergency call 999 or 112 (from a land-line if you can) and ask for Ambulance, Fire or Police when connected.

Beaumont, Goose Green, Great Oakley, Horsley Cross, Horsleycross Street, Little Bentley, Raven's Green, Stones Green, Tendring, Tendring Green, Wix, CO16 0, CO11 2, CO12 5, CO7 8 Asheldham, Deal Hall, Dengie, Eves Corner, Northend, Old Montsale, Ostend, Southminster, Steeple, Stoneyhills, CM0 7, CM0 8The East Saxon royal house had converted the Christianity around 604 AD, but subsequently apostasised. In the mid 7th century, a new Christian king, Sigeberht the Good, requested help from the monks of Lindisfarne in promoting Christianity among his people. John Speed in his Historie of Great Britaine (1611) follows Verstegan in his descriptions of the arms of Erkenwyne, but he qualifies the statement by adding "as some or our heralds have emblazed". [69] See also: List of places in Essex, List of settlements in Essex by population, and Geology of Essex Stansted Mountfitchet – with Mountfitchet Castle, a living reconstruction of a Norman village and close to Stansted Airport

Before the creation of the county councils, county-level administration was limited in nature; lord-lieutenants replaced the sheriffs from the time of Henry VIII and took a primarily military role, responsible for the militia and the Volunteer Force that replaced it. Anglia Ruskin University has a campus in Chelmsford. Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Faculty of Medical Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Anglia Law School, Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education and School of Medicine are located in the campus area. As it is not far from London, with its economic magnetism, many of Essex's settlements, particularly those near or within short driving distance of railway stations, function as dormitory towns or villages where London workers raise their families. In these areas a high proportion of the population commute to London, and the wages earned in the capital are typically significantly higher than more local jobs. Many parts of Essex therefore, especially those closest to London, have a major economic dependence on London and the transport links that take people to work there. Abridge, Debden Green, Fiddlers Hamlet, Hobbs Cross, Passingford Bridge, Stanford Rivers, Stapleford Abbotts, Stapleford Tawney, Theydon Bois, Theydon Garnon, Theydon Mount, Watton's Green, RM4 1, IG10 2, CM16 7, CM5 9, CM14 5 In England, the term county is currently applied to a number of different geographical units: the historic counties, the ceremonial counties (or lieutenancy areas) and the non-metropolitan counties. Therefore, Essex has different boundaries depending on which type of county is being referred to. The areas of the historic county now administered as London boroughs.

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The Port of Tilbury is a major sea port on the Thames, having inherited the trade which would once have continued upstream to the Port of London. Grose, Francis and Egan, Pierce. (1823). Grose's Classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue, revised and corrected, with the addition of numerous slang phrases, collected from tried authorites. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones. Retrieved 2009-04-16. The cowslip is the county plant of Essex. [70] The Hay Wain by John Constable shows the Essex landscape on the right bank. Patron saint [ edit ] A consequence of these features is that the broad estuaries defining them have been a factor in preventing any transport infrastructure linking them to neighbouring areas on the other side of the river estuaries, to the north and south.

Harwich International Port is in Harwich - ferry connections to Hook of Holland, The Netherlands, and Felixstowe, Suffolk. Road connections via the A120. The Kingdom of the East Saxons included not just the subsequent county of Essex, but also Middlesex (including the City of London), much of Hertfordshire and at times also the sub-Kingdom of Surrey. The Middlesex and Hertfordshire parts were known as the Province of the Middle Saxons since at least the early eighth century but it is not known if the province was previously an independent unit that came under East Saxon control. Charter evidence shows that the Kings of Essex appear to have had a greater control in the core area, east of the Lea and Stort, that would subsequently become the county of Essex. In the core area they granted charters freely, but further west they did so while also making reference to their Mercian overlords.A127, to the Rochford Peninsula, including Southend and Southend Airport. This is no longer maintained as a trunk road. Billericay - A rural commuter town near to Basildon in Essex, Billericay was settled as long ago as the Iron and Bronze Age. Billericay Map. Boose's Green, Colne Engaine, Cross End, Earls Colne, Halstead, Little Maplestead, Mount Bures, Pebmarsh, Wakes Colne, White Colne, CO6 2, CO9 2, CO8 5