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Great Leighs, Essex

Historical Description

Leighs, Great or Much, a village and a parish in Essex. The village stands on the river Ter, 4½ miles SW from White Notley station on the G.E.R., and 7 NE from Chehns-ford. It has a post and telegraph office under Chelmsford; money order office, Little Waltham. Acreage of parish, 3146; population, 720. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £690 with residence, in the gift of Lincoln College, Oxford. The church is a very ancient building, partly Norman, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a round tower of stone and flint with octagonal shingled spire. It has a mutilated brass of a priest of 1414. There are also a non-sectarian chapel, two alms-houses. Chatley is a hamlet situated about 2 miles NW of the village.

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 
Ecclesiastical parishLeighs St. Mary 
HundredChelmsford 
Poor Law unionChelmsford 

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Land and Property

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

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Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Villages, Hamlets, &c

Chatley
DistrictChelmsford
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCM3
Post TownChelmsford

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