a brewery and cidery and one holiday park. Transport Railway Southminster railway station is the northern terminus of the Crouch Valley line, which provides generally hourly stopping services to Wickford. Some early morning peak services continue beyond Wickford to London Liverpool Street. Trains are operated Abellio Greater Anglia. The single-tracked line was electrified in the 1980s. Buses Bus services in Southminster are operated by First Essex, Hedingham Omnibuses and Stephensons of Essex. Routes include: 331 Chelmsford - Burnham on Crouch D2 Maldon - Southminster In Literature Southminster is the name given to the fictional cathedral city featured in the short story 'An Episode of Cathedral History' by M.R. James, published in A Thin Ghost and Others, his third collection of Ghost Stories published in 1919. Location Grid Parishes adjacent to the Southminster parish: References Towns in Essex Civil parishes in Essex Maldon District