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Virley or Salcott Virley, Essex

Historical Description

Virley or Salcott Virley, a parish in Essex, 7 miles SE of Kelvedon station on the G.E.R. main line. Post town, Witham; money order and telegraph office, Tolleshunt D'Arcy. Acreage, 347; population of the civil parish, 75; of the ecclesiastical, with Salcott, 292. The manor belongs to the baronet family of Abdy. . The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans, united with that of Salcott; joint gross value, £210. The church, now in ruins, is an ancient building of flint and rubble in the Early English style.

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 parishVirley St. Mary 
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 Virley or Salcott Virley 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.


Newspapers and Periodicals

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