Ashingdon Parish is a pleasant, pretty and quiet rural parish. The Parish is approximately 2 miles North of Rochford and continues to the bank of the tidal River Crouch and the Parish includes the villages of Ashingdon and South Fambridge.
It has a population of over 1000 and a wide variety of types of housing in country lanes, in the two villages, in housing estates both old and new. Since the Battle in 1016, Ashingdon and South Fambridge have very low levels of disturbance, crime and vandalism, this all enhances the quality of life for all who live, work, study and pass through our Parish.

The boundaries of the Parish of Ashingdon are shaped like the crowned head of King Canute or King Edmund and those boundaries follow a wide variety of terrain, from hills, lanes, fields, brooks and a tidal river.

Ashingdon was the site of the Battle of Ashingdon and the base camp of King Edmund, the Saxon King of Wessex and part of England. Whereas, nearby Canewdon was the base camp of King Canute, the Danish king who laid claim to all of England and The Danelaw, the Eastern regions known as : Essex, East Anglia, East Mercia and Northumbria.
The claim was settled by the battle which took place at Ashingdon in 1016 AD, when Canute fought Edmund and won both the battle and secured the Kingdom of all England including the Saxon Wessex and their territories : Kent, Sussex, Wessex and West Mercia.

The source of this information is from Councillor Glen Dryhurst and the comprehensive Parish Website