Southminster
Sign in to saveAlso known as Southminster, Essex
Southminster is a town and civil parish on the Dengie Peninsula in the Maldon district of Essex in the East of England. It lies about north of Burnham-on-Crouch and south-east of Maldon; it is approximately east-north-east of London. To the north is the River Blackwater, which is tidal, and, since Roman times, has been the gateway to trading in the area. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 4,828.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Southminster
- UK place.label_position
- top
- UK place.population
- 4,828
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.shire_district
- Maldon
- UK place.shire_county
- Essex
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Maldon
- UK place.post_town
- SOUTHMINSTER
- UK place.postcode_district
- CM0
- UK place.postcode_area
- CM
- UK place.dial_code
- 01621
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ961995
- UK place.static_image
- Essex, St. Leonard's Church, Southminster - geograph.org.uk - 1713729.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 240px
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Leonard's, Southminster
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Maldon
- Population
- 4272
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Essex, St. Leonard's Church, Southminster - geograph.org.uk - 1713729.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01621
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Southminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ961995
- postal code
- CM0
- P8168
- Adolf Busch
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- St Leonard's Church
- Facilities
- Transport
- Railway
- Buses
- Location grid
- References
Southminster is a town and civil parish on the Dengie Peninsula in the Maldon district of Essex in the East of England. It lies about north of Burnham-on-Crouch and south-east of Maldon; it is approximately east-north-east of London. To the north is the River Blackwater, which is tidal, and, since Roman times, has been the gateway to trading in the area. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 4,828.
==Etymology== The village's name is basically similar in meaning to that of Westminster in London; from Old English Suðmynstre, meaning "south minster".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Southminster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations