Mountnessing
Sign in to saveMountnessing is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England. It is situated to the north-east of Brentwood and south-west of Ingatestone. The main part of the village lies along the Roman Road between Brentwood and Ingatestone, which 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. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,437.
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Place details
- Locality
- Brentwood
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Mountnessing
- UK place.population
- 1,437
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.static_image_name
- Mountnessing Windmill - geograph.org.uk - 1095572.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Mountnessing Windmill
- UK place.shire_district
- Brentwood
- UK place.shire_county
- Essex
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Brentwood and Ongar
- UK place.civil_parish
- Mountnessing
- UK place.post_town
- BRENTWOOD
- UK place.postcode_district
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Brentwood
- Population
- +1183
- Image
- Mountnessing windmill.jpg
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Mountnessing is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Brentwood in Essex, England. It is situated to the north-east of Brentwood and south-west of Ingatestone. The main part of the village lies along the Roman Road between Brentwood and Ingatestone, which 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. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,437.
==History== Mountnessing is one of a number of villages on or near the river Wid to contain an old name, Ing. It is thought that this was the name of a large district that encompassed these places, found in the Domesday Book as Ginga or Inga, part of the Chelmsford Hundred. Its etymology is uncertain, but Eilert Ekwall has proposed the reconstructed Old English name *Gigingas or similar as the original name of the district. He connects this with OE gē (equivalent of Gothic gawi), meaning "district". Gawi is posited as the base of Gauingen in Germany, and is found in several personal names. Ekwall suggests *Gēga or *Giga as possible Essex-dialect personal names (derived from gē) from which *Gigingas (possibly "the people of Giga") may derive.