County
Essex
39 places in the corpus · 2,355 dated entries · 1234–1470.
Places are grouped by historic county. The county of each place is taken from the printed indexes (which qualify a place as “co. Norfolk”) and the gazetteer, then normalised to the traditional shire.
Shaded: the historic county of Essex. Source: Historic County Borders Project (county-borders.co.uk), traditional counties. A proxy for the medieval shire, not a medieval reconstruction.
About these overlays & sources
These layers are real published datasets, not derived from the rolls, clipped to this county's neighbourhood for context. Each is external research data, reprojected but otherwise unmodified:
- Gough Map roads (c.1355–1360) — Oksanen, E. & Brookes, S. (2024) The Routes and Roads of the Gough Map: GIS Database. ADS. doi:10.5284/1124312.
- Navigable rivers (courses with direct and indirect evidence of medieval traffic) — Oksanen, E. (2019) Inland Navigation in England and Wales before 1348. ADS. doi:10.5284/1057497.
- Bridges to c.1250 — Brookes, S., Rye, E. & Oksanen, E. (2019) Bridges of Medieval England to c.1250. ADS. doi:10.5284/1053676. CC BY 4.0.
- Monastic houses (dissolution-era) — after MonasteryQuest, stainedglassattitudes.com.
- Terrain relief: Esri World Shaded Relief. The clean default base is CARTO (label-free), © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Activity over time
Where the court came from and went next (outside the county, click a bar)
From the seal's movement network: the places it was at immediately before arriving in this county (arrived from) and immediately after leaving it (departed to). Click a bar to open that place.
Places (39 in the county; the map shows those we could geolocate)
- Waltham Holy Cross 1,727
- Havering 599
- Thunderley 279
- Thurrock 138
- Harwich 136
- Thundersley 93
- Rayleigh 86
- Writtle 65
- Hayden 34
- Chelmsford 33
- Ongar 31
- Copford 26
- Woodham 24
- Hadley 19
- Laver 17
- Tilbury 17
- Witham 17
- Colchester 16
- Greenstead 16
- Matching Hall 16
- Copped Hall 12
- Baddow 11
- Ilford 11
- Romford 10
- Coggeshall 8
- Rainham 8
- Beaumont 7
- Theydon 5
- Barling 4
- Fobbing 4
- Hadlegh 4
- Roding 4
- Lamarsh 3
- Pleshy 3
- Rochford 3
- Totham 3
- Buckfold 2
- Messing 2
- Dunmow 1