THUNDERSLEY, a parish partly in the hundred
of ROCHFORD, consisting of the hamlet of Thundersley,
but chiefly in the hundred of BARSTABLE, county of
ESSEX, 2 miles (S.W. by W.) from Rayleigh, containing
546 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of London,
rated in the king's books at £ 14.13. 4., and in the
patronage of the Rev, G. Hemming. The church, dedicated
to St. Peter, is an admixture of the Norman and.
early English styles of architecture.