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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Hundred | Hinckford | |
Poor Law union | Sudbury |
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: