Description
Fambridge, North, a parish in Essex, on the river Crouch, at a ferry to South Fambridge, 6 1/2 miles S from Maldon. It lias a station on the Southminster branch of the G.E.R. Post town, Maldon; money order office, Stow Maries; telegraph office, Latchingdon. Acreage, 1248; population, 151. Fambridge is thought to be a corruption of Foambridge, and to have been derived from a bridge which anciently stood liere, and raised foam in the current. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £218. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of red brick in the Perpendicular style, and has been restored recently.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
