Great Warley, Essex
Historical Description
Warley, Great (known also as Warley Abbess), a parish in Essex, 3 miles S of Brentwood station on the main line of the G.E.R. It includes Warley Street, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office of the name of Warley Common, under Brentwood.. Acreage, 2891; population, 1609. The manor belongs to Lord Headley. There are several good residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £300 with residence, in the gift of St John's College, Cambridge. The church, which was restored in 1860, is a building of brick chiefly in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a western tower with a low spire. There is a Roman Catholic chapel. A chapelry, called Christ-church Great Warley, was formed in 1855, out of Great Warley, Shenfield and South Weald parishes, and has its church upwards of 2 miles from the churches of the respective parishes. Population, 4947. The liviag is a vicarage of the net value of £289 with residence.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Warley St. Mary | |
Hundred | Chafford | |
Poor Law union | Romford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Warley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Warley, Great (St. Mary))
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 Great Warley 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: