[2] North and South Shoebury were recorded as one settlement in the Domesday Book named Essoberiam Soberia.

[3] The parish church of North Shoebury, St Mary the Virgin, was given to nearby Prittlewell Priory before 1170, although there is no surviving fabric of this date.

The porch was added in the 18th century, while the church was restored under the designs of William Benton between 1883 and 1885.

[12] John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870–72 entry reads: SHOEBURY (North), a parish in Rochford district, Essex; on the coast, 3½ miles E of Southend r. station.

In 1974 the parish of Southend-on-Sea was abolished and North Shoebury became part of the unparished area of Southend-on-Sea, a non-metropolitan district which became a unitary authority again in 1998.