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St Mary Magdalen's Church, High Street, Billericay: 15th-century tower and Georgian main building behind. The town of Billericay was established in the 13th century in the Manor and Parish of Great Burstead. The Manor of Burgestede is first recorded in an Anglo-Saxon will of 975 AD. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is recorded as Burghestada ...
The airship narrowly missed Billericay High Street and crashed in fields just off from Greens Farm lane Great Burstead, killing all 22 crew. [6] In 1931 the parish had a population of 3690. [7] The Great Burstead parish, which also covered Billericay was abolished on 1 January 1937 to form Billericay. [8]
In the early 1630s, a Praying Indian village named Shawshin was at the current site of Billerica, [3] commonly spelled Shawsheen today, as in the Shawsheen River.In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop and Lt. Governor Thomas Dudley were granted land along the Concord River in the area, and roughly a dozen families from Cambridge and Charlestown Village had begun to occupy Shawshin ...
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Old Town Hall, Billericay From 1938 until the early 1960s the urban district council met at the Town Hall at 94 High Street in Billericay and had its main offices nearby, notably at 98 High Street. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In the early 1960s the council moved to premises in the new town centre of Basildon.
In 1934 most of the Billericay Rural District was reconstituted as Billericay Urban District and, in 1938, the assembly room became the council chamber of Billericay Urban District Council. [5] The police service relocated to new premises further south along the High Street, on the corner with London Road, at that time. [6]
Shocking video showed the moment a speeding passenger train slammed into a Florida fire truck that drove past a warning gate onto the tracks, injuring 15 people, including three smoke eaters.
Texas law enforcement issued a word of warning to Ford truck owners after they arrested a trio of thieves who targeted the high-end truck model by stealing taillights.