Red spot approx location of Prittlewell.

"Prittlewell an ancient village, known in the raign of King Edward the Confessor, is the mother parish of Southend, in the Rochford hundard and union. Rochester dicese, Essex Archeaconry, and Canewdon deanery, South Essex, on the road from Southend to Rochford, 1 mile north of Southend, 3 miles south of Rochford, 15 miles south-east of Billericay, and 40 miles form London. It receives its name from a well at the Prioy, feeds several fishponds. The whole parish contains 5,248 acres; the population in 1861 was 3,334. The village consists of two streets on the slope of a hill, at right angles with each other, and having the church at thejuction, on the top of the hill. "
[Kelly's Directory of Essex, 1862]