Beaumont with Moze is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Essex, created in 1678 from Beaumont Ancient Parish and Moze Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Moze.
Alternative names: Beaumont, Beaumont cum Moze
Parish church: St Leonard
Parish registers begin:
Beaumont with Moze
- Parish registers: 1548
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1802
Moze
- Parish registers: 1548
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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HIGH STREET BEAUMONT CUM MOZE
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BEAUMONT-CUM-MOZE, a parish in Tendring district, Essex; near the head of an inlet of the North sea, between the Naze and Harwich, 4½ miles S of Wrabness r. station, and 10 E of Colchester. It has a post office, of the name of Beaumont, under Colchester. Acres, 3,261; of which 215 are water. Real property, £4,349. Pop., 490. Houses, 109. The property is divided among a few. Beaumont Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £652. Patron, Wadham College, Oxford. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BEAUMONT cum MOZE (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union and hundred of Tendring, N. division of Essex, 7¾ miles (S. E. by S.) from Manningtree, and 13 (E.) from Colchester; containing 451 inhabitants. It comprises 3046 acres, whereof 692 are common or waste; and lies near the extremity of an inlet of the North Sea between the Naze and Harwich. The tide comes up to Beaumont wharf, which is connected with a short canal for conveying coal, corn, and manure, to and from London. The living is a rectory, to which that of Moze was united in 1678, valued in the king’s books at £18, and in the gift of the Governors of Guy’s Hospital: the tithes have been commuted for £775, and there are 46 acres of glebe. The church is a plain edifice, having a piscina in the chancel: the church at Moze has been demolished. There is a small place of worship for Wesleyans. Some silver coins were dug up in 1806.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Essex
- Civil Registration District: Tendring
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Colchester
- Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Tendring, Post-1846 – Harwich
- Poor Law Union: Tendring
- Hundred: Tendring
- Province: Canterbury
