BURSTEAD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
BARSTABLE, county of ESSEX, 2 miles (S.S.E.) from
Billericay, containing 1861 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage; in the archdeaconry of Essex, arid diocese of
London, rated in the king's books at £17. 6. 8., and in
the patronage of the Rev. Edward Evans. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, About a mile north
of it are some earthworks, enclosing a space of about
four acres, and called Blunt's Walls, where various
Roinan remains have been dug up. There is a free
school at Billericay for the benefit of the children of the
whole parish.