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Layer Breton, Essex

Historical Description

Layer Breton, a parish in Essex, on an affluent of the Roman river called the Layerbrook, 5 miles E from Mark's Tey station on the main line of the G.E.R., and 6 SW by S of Colchester. It has a post office under Kelvedon; money order and telegraph office. Birch. Acreage, 1260; population, 247. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £215 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, is a small building partly of brick in the Early English style. There are a Congregational chapel and a Friends' meeting-house.

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 
HundredWinstree 
Poor Law unionLexden and Winstree 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Layer Breton 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 Layer Breton 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:

DistrictColchester
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCO2
Post TownColchester

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