Mucking, Essex

Description
Mucking (anciently written Mokking), a parish in Essex, adjacent to the Thames,and on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, three-quarters of a mile S by W of Stanford-le-Hope station, 2 3/4 miles ESE of Orsett, and 5 1/2 E of Grays. It contains the hamlet of Mucking Ford, and its post town and money order and telegraph office is Stanford-le-Hope. Acreage, 2118; population, 251. The manor formerly belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's, but is now the property of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. A nunnery, a cell to Barking Abbey, was formerly here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £277 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's. The church was largely and carefully rebuilt and restored in 1852, the work being completed in 1887, and is a fine building in the Early English style, the ancient part dating from 1170., The parish is mentioned in the Domesday book as Mucinga, and also in a still earlier chronicle. The name "Mucking" signifies " much grass."