Leigh on Sea

Leigh-on-Sea , additionally alluded to as Leigh, is a town and common ward in Essex, England. An area of Southend-on-Sea, with its very own town committee, it is as of now the main common ward inside the precinct. Archeological finds of ceramics and coins from the Romano-British time in the region recommend early settlement. From at any rate the Saxon time frame a peak clearing in the midst of the forest that secured a significant part of the encompassing region the Rochford Hundred of Essex came to be known as Leigh on the other hand given as 'Ley', 'Lee' or 'Lea' on old maps. A position of minor financial significance at the season of the Norman Conquest, a reference to Leigh Legra shows up in the Domesday Book overview of 1086.

Ley is a place-name component found likewise in the close-by towns and towns of Hadleigh, Rayleigh, Hockley, and Thundersley. From the late Middle Ages onwards, Leigh developed from a provincial backwater through periods of expanded and decreased oceanic exchange to frame, by the mid twentieth century, the westernmost suburb of the district of Southend-on-Sea. Past the angling and exchanging settlement on the shore of the Thames Estuary, ious ranches including Leigh Heath Farm, Leigh Park Farm, Chapmans, Belfairs Farm, Gowles/Gowlds, Picketts, Owls Hall Farm, Wood Farm, Adams/Allens Elm Farm, Plastow and Leigh Hall Farm existed.