Tillingham is a small village and civil parish with 1,015 inhabitants in 2001,Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Maldon Retrieved 2009-12-17 located from Burnham-on-Crouch and from Bradwell-on-Sea, in Maldon District and the ceremonial county of Essex in England. It is one of the villages that make up the ancient Dengie Hundred, which is bounded by the River Blackwater and River Crouch.