Historical County Map of Essex
This reproduction of the cartographical masterpiece created by Thomas Moule displays attractive drawings of Southend and Chelmsford. A county of England, bounded on the W. by Middlesex and Herts; on the N. by part of Cambridgeshire and the river Stour, which separates it from Suffolk; on the E. by the German Ocean; and on the S. by the Thames, which divides it from Kent. It is about 54 miles long from E. to W. and 48 broad from N. to S. and is divided into 18 hundreds, which contain26 market towns, 403 parishes, about 63,000 houses, and 325,000 inhabitants.......