Heybridge is a settlement in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of
Ingatestone and Fryerning
Ingatestone and Fryerning is a civil parish in the Brentwood borough of Essex, England.
The parish includes the villages of Ingatestone and Fryerning, and covers an area of .
History
The civil parish was formed on 24 March 1889 by the Local G ...
, in the
Brentwood borough of
Essex
Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
, England, contiguous with the village of
Ingatestone
Ingatestone is a village and former civil parish in Essex, England, with a population of 5,409 inhabitants at the United Kingdom 2021 Census, 2021 Census. Just north lies the village of Fryerning; the two now forming the parish of Ingatestone ...
. The main development comprises a mixture of houses and bungalows which were built in 1954 on land owned by the Coal Board and an area of local authority housing.
It is on the course of a
Roman Road
Roman roads ( ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Em ...
. This was formerly the
A12 road (England)
The A12 is a major road in Eastern England. It runs north-east/south-west between London and the coastal town of Lowestoft in the north-eastern corner of Suffolk, following a similar route to the Great Eastern Main Line until Ipswich. A section ...
until it was by-passed in the 1970s: Heybridge can be accessed from junction 13 of the A12 (Truelove's Interchange). The residential development is bounded by the railway line and River Wid to the south beyond which is rolling agricultural land.
Heybridge is within walking distance of
Ingatestone railway station
Ingatestone railway station is a stop on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the village of Ingatestone, Essex. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between to the west and to the east. Its ...
.
Ingatestone Hall
Ingatestone Hall is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Essex, England. It is located outside the village of Ingatestone, approximately south west of Chelmsford and north east of London. The house was built by Sir William Petre, a ...
is nearby.
Populated places in Essex
Borough of Brentwood