Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet is a civil parish in the Basildon borough of Essex, England. The parish includes the villages of Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 2,055. There are seven listed buildings in Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet. The local council is Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet Parish Council.
Localisation
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History
North Benfleet and Bowers Gifford had each been ancient parishes in the Barstable Hundred of Essex. Both parishes included exclaves on Canvey Island until 1880 when the island was made its own civil parish. The two parishes were included in the Billericay poor law union in 1835. They therefore became part of the Billericay rural sanitary district in 1872, which was reconstituted as the Billericay Rural District when elected parish and district councils were created in 1894. In 1934 most of the rural district, including the two parishes of Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet, was converted into the Billericay Urban District. The parishes within it were then classed as urban parishes and so became ineligible to have their own parish councils. All the civil parishes within the urban district were merged into a single parish called Billericay in 1937. The urban district was renamed Basildon in 1955 and was reformed to become the modern Basildon district in 1974, at which point the district also became an unparished area. The modern civil parish of Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet was created on 1 April 2010 from part of the unparished area following a community governance review.
Geography
The northern boundary is the A127 road. In the east it follows the A1245 road, the A130 road and East Haven Creek. The southern boundary, also formed by East Haven Creek, is with the civil parish of Canvey Island. The western boundary is Vange Creek, Pitseahall Fleet and an irregular boundary mostly aligned to fields.
Governance
There are three tiers of local government covering Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet, at parish, district, and county level: Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet Parish Council, Basildon Borough Council, and Essex County Council. The parish council meets at the Benbow Club at 77 Pound Lane in Bowers Gifford.
Listed buildings
There are seven listed buildings recorded in the National Heritage List for England for Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet. Of these two are grade II* and five are grade II.