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Borley, Essex

Historical Description

Borley, a parish in the county of Essex, on the verge of the county, at the river Stour, 3 miles NW of Sudbury station, and 1½ mile from Long Melford station on the G.E.R. It has a post and money order office, of the name of Borley Green, under Sudbury, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 795; population, 195. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Alban's; net value, £160 with residence. The church is a small building of the 13th or 14th century.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyEssex 
HundredHinckford 
Poor Law unionSudbury 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Churches

Church of England

dedication unknown (parish church)

The church (dedication unknown) is a small building of stone in the Early English style, with traces of Saxon work in the tower, and consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, containing 2 bells: in the church are two tombs of the Waldegrave family, including a monument 14 feet in height, with a cornice supported by six pillars of the Corinthian order, beneath which lie full-length figures of Sir Edward Waldegrave, who was knighted in 1553, at the coronation of Queen Mary, and died 1 Sept. 1561. and Lady Frances (Nevil) his wife, who died in 1599; with a marginal inscription in Latin and a record of other alliances of this family; there is also a brass to John Durham, of Norfolk. ob. 1601. and four stained windows. There are 180 sittings.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Borley from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.

The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.


Maps

Online maps of Borley are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online:

DistrictBraintree
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCO10
Post TownSudbury

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