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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Hundred | Winstree | |
Poor Law union | Lexden 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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Layer-Breton)
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:
- 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: