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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.

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 parishWarley St. Mary 
HundredChafford 
Poor Law unionRomford 

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:


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

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictBrentwood
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCM13
Post TownBrentwood

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