There is archaeological evidence of destruction by raiders between 170 – 200, ranging along the Continental coast down to the Bay of Biscay, to northwest Belgica ( e. g., fire destruction at Amiens, Thérouanne, Vendeuil-Caply, Beauvais, Bavai, Tournai and Arras ), to coastal Britain ( e. g., fire destruction at the eastern Essex sites of Chelmsford, Billericay, Gestingthorpe, Braintree, Wickford, Kelvedon, Great Chesterford and Harlow ).

It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.

Billerica is a sister city of Billericay, England, United Kingdom.

Alison Moyet ( born Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet 18 June 1961, Billericay ) is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy voice.

Billericay ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Basildon borough of Essex, England.

A meeting of the Pilgrim Fathers prior to their sailing in the Mayflower is said to have taken place in Billericay, and many local names and much historical imagery reflect this: Mayflower House, Morris Men, Taxis, School, Hall.

Billericay is within the London Basin and lies on a mixture of London clay, Claygate Beds and Bagshot Beds.

Since major boundary changes in Essex for the 2010 general election, Billericay has been part of the parliamentary constituency of Basildon and Billericay, whose MP is John Baron of the Conservative Party.

Billericay is part of the Basildon district, although occasional proposals have been made to transfer it to the nearby Brentwood district.

Billericay is also served by a town council of 20 members elected in 3 wards.

Billericay is a part of the London commuter belt.

It is served by Billericay railway station on the Greater Anglia route from Liverpool Street station, in the City of London, to Southend.

Billericay is close to two primary routes: the A12 to the north and the A127 in the south.

Billericay Rugby Football Club is the local rugby team, playing in Essex Division One.

Billericay is the only town to have won both the football and rugby vases.

Billericay is also the hometown of the Essex Spartans American football team who play their home games on the 3G Astroturf field at Hannakins Farm Community Centre.

Formed in 1880, Billericay Town FC is the local football team and are currently in the Blue Square Conference South League.

Billericay is also mentioned in George Orwell's novel Down and Out in Paris and London.

Billericay is twinned with:

Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body ( born 18 May 1927 ) is an English politician, and was Conservative Member of Parliament for Billericay from 1955 to 1959, for Holland with Boston from 1966 to 1997, and for Boston and Skegness from 1997 until he stood down at the 2001 general election.

Teresa Ellen Gorman ( born 30 September 1931 ) is a British politician, and was Conservative Member of Parliament for Billericay, in the county of Essex in England from 1987 to 2001 when she stood down.

Phoenix FM is a community radio station serving the areas of Brentwood and Billericay, England.

The building is similar to that at Billericay.

Billericay Town are also local rivals though the teams haven't played each other for several years.

The constituency also did not contain the urban wards to the east and west of Basildon such as Pitsea and parts of Laindon Park, these being located in the Billericay constituency.

Billericay also won the FA Vase twice during their time in the Essex Senior League.

The unfortunate fate of the would-be pioneers did not deter other inhabitants of Billericay from setting sail for the New World.

Also: United Reformed Church Billericay Essex & Mayflower website:

* New Lodge, Billericay, association football ground in Billericay, Essex, home of Billericay Town F. C.

Billericay, Essex: Greenwich Exchange.

Wishing to replace the foreign-sounding Shawshin with a name more familiar, the settlers chose the name Billerica, likely due to the fact that the majority of the families living in the settlement were originally from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.

Ian Dury's Billericay Dickie mentions Shoeburyness.

Nearby towns include Billericay to the north, Wickford northeast and South Benfleet to the east.

The local government district of Basildon, formed in 1974 was first led by Ryan O ' Rourke and encapsulates a larger area than the town itself ; the two neighbouring towns of Billericay and Wickford, as well as rural villages and smaller settlements set among the surrounding countryside, fall within its borders.

In the 1940s, Billericay Urban District Council and Essex County Council, concerned by lack of amenities in the area and by its development, petitioned the Government to create a New Town.

Due to boundary changes, in the 2010 General Election the Basildon and Billericay constituency elected 1 MP and South Basildon and East Thurrock elected another MP.

Wickford railway station and Billericay railway station within Basildon district are on the Shenfield to Southend Line serving Liverpool Street station operated by Greater Anglia.

Bus service, mainly operated by First Essex Buses Ltd ex NBC / Thamesway connect the town to nearby towns including Billericay and Wickford.

Some of the earliest records of human occupation of Billericay are the burial mounds in Norsey Wood: evidence of occupation in the Bronze and Iron Ages.

The Saxons did not settle in the centre of Billericay.

Billericay was not mentioned in the Domesday Book, as it lay within Great Burstead.

At this time the parish church for Billericay was at Great Burstead.

In the 13th and 14th centuries some pilgrims to Canterbury journeyed via Billericay.

Some of them may have spent the night in Billericay before crossing the River Thames at Tilbury.

Four people from Billericay were on board, including Christopher Martin.

In the Georgian period many excellent examples of the period's houses were built in Billericay.