boats and fishing. Sports and recreation Heybridge has a Non-League football club Heybridge Swifts F.C. who play at Scraley Road. Heybridge has a King George's Field (or Plantation) in memorial to King George V, which is locally, and colloquially, known as ''the Planny'. Notable people Francis Waring (1760–1833) was the vicar of Heybridge. He was notorious for the extraordinary way he performed the duties of his office. He would read church lessons at breakneck speed, give a very quick sermon of one or two sentences and then run down the aisle and leap onto a horse to gallop off and repeat the performance at two other churches in the area. His domestic arrangements were equally peculiar. Although he wasn't poor, his vicarage was furnished with rough-hewn logs, instead of chairs. His children ate their meals from a trough next to the split-log dining table. He and his wife slept in an enormous wicker cradle suspended from the ceiling. The Waring Room, St Andrew's church hall, is named after him. Edward Hammond Bentall (1814–1898) was an industrialist who developed the agricultural machinery manufacturing business established by his father William Bentall (1776–1836) and traded under the name E H Bentall & Co. In 1873 he built a large Italianate house called The Towers at the corner of Goldhanger Road and Colchester Road. The house pioneered concrete block construction and was built with ducted air heating and no fireplaces, although some were added later. The house was demolished in the 1950s. Today the site is occupied by the Towers Estate''. References External links Christian Outreach Centre Heybridge and Maldon meets at the church on Broad Street Green Heybridge Swifts The Heybridge Basin Heybridge Youth Football Club Heybridge Parish Council Heybridge Basin About Heybridge Basin 1st Heybridge Scout Group The award winning Heybridge Primary School website! Heybridge Basin Business, events and Community website Villages in Essex Maldon District Civil parishes in Essex