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Historic Benfleet

The Origins and Stories of Settlement in Benfleet

  • Benfleet & District Historical Society 1955 to 1982

    Benfleet & District Historical Society 1955 to 1982

    Journals March 1956
  • Benfleet & District Historical Society 1960

    Benfleet & District Historical Society 1960

    Benfleet Tithe Map 1840
  • Benfleet Before The Railway

    Benfleet Before The Railway

    The Tithe Map, 1841
  • Benfleet Time Line

    Benfleet Time Line

    An illustrated guide
  • Benfleet Village

    Benfleet Village

    Scott's Illustrated Guide "Holland-in-England" 1906
  • Benfleet's Postal History.

    Benfleet's Postal History.

    Is this Benfleet's Oldest?
  • From Beamfleote to Benfleet

    From Beamfleote to Benfleet

    Local place-name origins
  • Harold Edford Priestley

    Harold Edford Priestley

    The Historian
  • John Aubone Cook 1

    John Aubone Cook 1

    Local hero
  • John Aubone Cook 2

    John Aubone Cook 2

    Local hero
  • John Christian Mantel

    John Christian Mantel

    The Maestro of South Benfleet
  • Queen Victoria One Penny Lilac. E29.

    Queen Victoria One Penny Lilac. E29.

    The only known example.
  • The Battle of Beamfleot (Benfleet)

    The Battle of Beamfleot (Benfleet)

    An amateur map from 1955
  • The Battle of Benfleet

    The Battle of Benfleet

    The National perspective
  • The Battle of Benfleet

    The Battle of Benfleet

    The Local perspective
  • The Dreaded ague,   a.k.a.  malaria

    The Dreaded ague, a.k.a. malaria

    The Curse of the Essex marshes
  • Tithe Map Key

    Tithe Map Key

    Acronyms used and plot number guide
  • What the Railway Navvies did for Benfleet.

    What the Railway Navvies did for Benfleet.

    Plague pits, Cholera and Fisticuffs
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  • Unnoticed changing nature of local surroundings
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  • Historic Benfleet
  • Castle Point Council
  • Canvey Flood 1953
  • Alan Simpson
  • Countryside Estates
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