Description
Barling, or Barling Magna, a parish in Essex, on a creek of the Broomhill river, 4 1/2 miles ESE of Rochford, 5 NE of Southend, and 3 N from Shoeburyness station on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway. It has a post office under Rochford; money order and telegraph office, Great Wakering. Acreage, 1290 of land and 161 of foreshore and water; population, 393. The manor was given by Edward the Confessor to St Paul's Cathedral. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £180, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's. The church is in the Perpendicular style, with chancel and tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
