CXLIV. LONDON TO SOUTHEND THROUGH ROMFORD, BRENTWOOD, BILLERICAY, AND RAYLEIGH, 413 Miles. JON RIGHT FROM LOND. From From London. ON LEFT FROM LOND. From Whitechapel Ch. BILLERICAY is situated 233 to BRENTWOOD, (p. 399.) 18 on au eminence command- and the coast of Kent. Here, is a chapel said to have been 184 founded in the time of Ed- 8 ward III. The tower may be of that age, but the body 5 of the chapel is modern. Pop. of chapelry 1284. Shenfield. BILLERICAY. 19 Rayleigh was formerly a town of some importance. It has a handsome ancient 231 church and some remains of an old castle. 5 miles dis-! tant is RoCHFORD, near which is Rochford Hall, 33 36 where Anne Boleyn was Hadleigh Common. SOUTHEND. 41 born in 1507. CXLV. NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY, opened to Stortford, 32 miles. Trains leave the Station of the Eastern Counties Railway, Shoreditch. CXLVI. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, 126 Miles, opened to Brentwood, 411 Coaches are despatched daily by the railway trains to Hornchurch, Upminster, Ockendon, Billericay, Rayleigh, Southend, Chelmsford, Maldon, Braintree, Halstead, Ingatestone, Witham, Colchester, Harwich, Bury, Sudbury, Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth. |