Mountnessing is a village and civil parish in the

Borough of Brentwood The Borough of Brentwood is a local government district with borough status in Essex, England. The borough is named after its main town of Brentwood, where the council is based; it includes several villages and the surrounding rural area. T ...

in south

Essex Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...

, England. It is situated to the north-east of Brentwood and south-west of

Ingatestone Ingatestone is a village and former civil parish in Essex, England, with a population of 5,409 inhabitants at the United Kingdom 2021 Census, 2021 Census. Just north lies the village of Fryerning; the two now forming the parish of Ingatestone ...

. A large proportion of the houses are situated on the

Roman Road Roman roads ( ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Em ...

between Brentwood and Ingatestone; it was formerly the A12 until the village was bypassed in the 1970s. The village is approximately equidistant between the two closest railway stations at and . Its main attraction is Mountnessing Windmill.

History

The village dates from the 12th century when the de Monteny family became the new owners of the manor. This family came from

Montigny, Calvados Montigny () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the Calvado ...

in Normandy, and Mountnessing has been interpreted as "Mountney's Ging", ging being a term for meadow. Thoby Priory was first recorded as "Ginges", was located in Mountnessing.

Amenities

The parish church of St Giles is located midway between Mountnessing and

Billericay Billericay ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Basildon in Essex, England. It lies within the London Basin, east of the City of London. The town was founded in the 13th century by the Stratford Langthorne Abbey, Abbot of West Ham, ...

. An annual village fete is held in July. In the Windmill field, there is a village hall, cricket pitch, football pitches and tennis courts. The village has three pubs (''The George and Dragon'', ''The Plough'' and the ''Prince of Wales''), a butcher's and a hairdressers. There is a primary school, Mountnessing C of E, on Roman Road.

Sport

The village is home to Mountnessing Cricket Club. A short-lived

greyhound racing Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around an oval track. The sport originates from Hare coursing, coursing. Track racing uses an artificial lure (usually a form of windsock) that travels ahead of th ...

track was opened during 1931, at Chain Bridge on the main London Road. The racing was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the

National Greyhound Racing Club The National Greyhound Racing Club was an organisation that governed Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom Greyhound racing is a sport in the United Kingdom. The industry uses a parimutuel betting tote system with on-course and off-course be ...

) and known as a ''flapping track'', which was the nickname given to independent tracks. Racing took place every Saturday at 3pm, but did not continue beyond 1932.

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* {{authority control Villages in Essex Civil parishes in Essex Borough of Brentwood