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Billericay Union Workhouse
Erected in 1840 to provide for the poor
of 29 parishes:
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Basildon
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North Benfleet
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South Benfleet
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Bowers Gifford
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Brentford
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Great Burstead
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Little Burstead
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Childerditch
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Downham
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Dunton
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East Horndon
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West Horndon
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Hutton
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Ingrave
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Laindon
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Lee Chapel
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Mountnessing
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Nevendon
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Pitsea
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Ramsden
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Bellhouse
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Ramsden Crays
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Shenfield
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Thundersley
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Vange
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Great Warley
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Little Warley
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South Weald
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Wickford
Under the
National Health Service it became St
Andrews Hospital, which finally closed
in 1997. The original workhouse
buildings, remain as listed buildings
and are called Charles House.
They are used as Residential
Accommodation.
A book is available called "The
Billericay Union Workhouse" by Miss
Needham.
BILLERICAY - Post Office Directory 1846
- p 26
There is a union workhouse - Benjamin G
Collis is governor.
Source: Submitted by Betty Longbottom
Inmates
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Workhouses, List of those visited in
1867 With Name of the Workhouse and
numbers of insane, idiotic,
and imbecile inmates. |
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WORKHOUSE |
MALE |
FEMALE |
TOTAL |
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Billericay |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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Source: 22nd Report of the
Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord
Chancellor. Submitted by Alan
Longbottom. |
Records
Essex Record
Office
Wharf Road,
Chelmsford
CM12 6YT.
Telephone (01245) 244644
ero.enquiry@essexcc.gov.uk
Page updated
August 06, 2007
by Rossbret
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