PITSEA, a village and a parish in Billericay district, Essex. The village stands near a creek of the Thames and near the Southend railway, 5 miles W S W of Rayleigh; and has a station on the railway . The parish ismainly peninsulated by creeks, and includes part of Canveyisland. Post-town, Rayleigh, under Chelmsford. Acres, 2, 167; of which 125 are water. Real property, £2, 196. Pop., 263. Houses, 57. The property is divided among a few. The manor was held, at the Norman conquest, by Ulneva, the wife of Phin. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £420.* Patron, alternately the Hon. L. F.Dawnay and the Rev. G. Heath-cote. The church stands on a knoll, commanding a fineview of the surrounding country and the Thames; and it has a tower.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))