North Shoebury

North Shoebury (once known as Shoebury Parva and Little Shoebury) is a former civil parish and village in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. It is now part of Shoeburyness, a suburb of the city of Southend-on-Sea.

History
The name "Shoebury" means 'Shelter fortification' or 'shoe fortification'. North and South Shoebury were recorded as one settlement in the Domesday Book named Essoberiam Soberia.

The parish church of North Shoebury, St Mary the Virgin, was given to nearby Prittlewell Priory before 1170, although there is no surviving fabric of this date. The chapel is dated at c.1230, with further additions during the 14th or 15th century. The porch was added in the 18th century, while the church was restored under the designs of William Benton between 1883 and 1885. It is Grade II listed. The manor was split into two, under North Shoebury Hall (also known as West Hall), and Kents (also known as Soberia) rebuilt in 1824. North Shoebury was known as Little Shoebury, or Shoebury Parva (in Latin Parva Shoberi).

North Shoebury was once an ecclesiastical parish. John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870–72 entry reads: "SHOEBURY (North), a parish in Rochford district, Essex; on the coast, 3½ miles E of Southend r. station. Post town, Southchurch, under Southend. Acres, 2,131; of which 1,045 are water. Real property, £2,518. Pop., 193. Houses, 40. The manor belongs to G. A. W. Welch, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £185.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient but good."

North Shoebury was in the Rochford Hundred, it then became part of Rochford Rural District. In 1931 the parish had a population of 403. On 1 October 1933 the parish was abolished, with the area split between with Southend on Sea and Great Wakering parishes. The suburb became part of the County Borough of Southend-on-Sea. In 1974 the parish of Southend-on-Sea was abolished and North Shoebury became part of the unparished area of Southend-on-Sea, a non-metropolitan district which became a unitary authority again in 1998.