BEAUMONT, a parish in the hundred of TENDRING, county of ESSEX, 7 miles (S.E. by S.) from Manningtree, containing, with the parish of Moze, 434 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, to which that of Moze was united in 1678, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £18, and in the patronage of the Governors of Guy!s Hospital. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This parish lies near the extremity of an inlet of the North sea, between the Naze and Harwich.