Buttsbury

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Buttsbury is a settlement in the civil parish of Stock, in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. Buttsbury was anciently an extensive parish, which included both Stock and areas that now form northern suburbs of Billericay. The parish church of St Mary appears to have Saxon origins. It stands in an isolated position on a hill near the River Wid, and is surrounded by fields.

The main village in the ancient parish was Stock, which had its own chapel of ease from at least the 12th century and subsequently became a separate parish. The reduced parish of Buttsbury thereafter covered the rural fringes to the north, west, and south of its former main settlement of Stock. There is no village of Buttsbury as such today, with just a handful of isolated houses in the lanes near the church having Buttsbury addresses. The civil parish was abolished in 1936, being split between Stock and Billericay. An ecclesiastical parish of Buttsbury continues to exist, covering a smaller area than the ancient parish.